Memory By Cathy Song Analysis

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Cathy Song and Neil Aitkens, used their talent in writing and put their thoughts onto paper for many to appreciate. “Events become a window through which we enter a field of vision” (Klinkowitz & Wallace 2012, p. 1158). That is something both poets did, they allowed their personal events to guide the stroke of their pens. Whereas Memory by Neil Aitkens show clear expression of sorrow, Heaven by Cathy Song has more of an ambivalent tone. Both poems are similar in that they both use imagery to connect with their readers, why one may get a sense that the writers themselves long for connection in their own lives. When reading Heaven by Cathy Song one might come to conclusion that she is experiencing feelings of disappointment by some of her word

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