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A 5 page comparison of Stanley Kunitz’s “The Portrait” and Margaret Atwood’s “This is a Photograph of Me” as it involves the theme of death. No additional sources cited.
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from different perspectives, one told from the view of the deceased, and as such they are clearly different in how they address death. But, the two poems contain similarities as
well. The following paper examines each poem separately and then compares and contrasts the two. Kunitz In this poem the narrator recalls how his mother "never forgave"
his "father/ for killing himself" (Kunitz 1, 1-2). He illustrates how this took place when she was pregnant with the narrator, and then the poem examines how the boy once
found a picture of his father and his mother slapped him for it, then tearing the photo to bits. In the end the narrator states, "In my sixty-fourth year/ I
can feel my cheek/ still burning" (Kunitz 19-21). This poem discusses the joy and curiosity the narrator had when seeing a picture of his father, and of how he
could hear his father "thumping" in the cabinet the mother kept the father symbolically trapped in (Kunitz 9). In this one can envision how the narrator only wanting to know,
to be able to see who his father was and to have an understanding of where he came from perhaps. But that knowledge, that piece of himself was ripped from
him by his mother and even when he is old he still feels the sting of that loss, that memory he will never really know. Atwood In Atwoods
poem there is a description of a photograph, and from the title one assumes that the narrator is in the photo. However, the narrator never really tells the reader where
she is in the picture, illustrating a setting that is only made up nature it seems. It is not until the end, in parentheses, that the reader sees the narrator
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