Louise Gluk's Poem 'Terminal Resemblance'

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In the poem “Terminal Resemblance,” author, Louise Glück talks about her younger self and the complicated relationship with her father. Her father tells her that he will die soon and she does not know how to take it. Glück is not close with her father and never was before, even though he was always present in her life. When the father tries to connect with his daughter in the last conversation they have the speaker feels awkward because her father has never tried to have an emotional connection with her before so she focuses on her surroundings and notices how much life has changed while she was away. The speaker tries to focus on anything other than her father to avoid the fact that the father she was never close to is about to die.

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