6/24/2023 0 Comments Night sky with exit wounds![]() ![]() In a similar way, this poem is about a son who goes to sea in search of his father and-unlike Telemachus-actually finds him. First, in Homer's Odyssey, Telemachus is Odysseus's son, who travels at sea in an attempt to locate and find his father, who is yet to return from the Trojan War. Moreover, the poem's title is evocative of both the father-son relationship and the connection between the mythological and the personal that is reinforced elsewhere in Night Sky with Exit Wounds. "Telemachus" continues developing many of the motifs and themes that were introduced in "Threshold." Like "Threshold," the poem is written in couplets that are evocative of the bond between father and son, sealed figuratively by the presence of the father's face on his son and literally by the sealing of the father's lips at the poem's end. At the poem's end, the speaker reflects that he will wear his father's face for the rest of his life and "begin / the faithful work of drowning." Analysis It follows the speaker as he drags his drowning and shot father from the ocean, attempts to resuscitate his father, and fails. The poem "Telemachus" is the second poem in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds, and it is the first poem in the first section proper. ![]()
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