My Father

Poetic Devices:

Personification- “the house stands singing”

                         -“coyote’s dreams borne on the dust”

Metaphor         - “Sky long”

                        -“grow sweet”

Reader- first person

In the lyrical poem My Father written by Russell Wallace the “story” is being told through a man’s child. We can tell that the poem is told by the child because in the first stanza of the poem it says, “…my father built his house.” This poem is written about a piece of land that a family’s house was built on, and how beautiful they thought everything on the land was. In the poem there was a few sections with personification one of the sections it says, “the house stands singing.” Another way that there is personification is when the poem states, “coyote’s dreams borne on the dust” It’s referencing that dreams are borne instead of dreamt. Another literary device used in My Father is metaphors. The examples of metaphors that I found were, “Sky long” and “Grow sweet.”