Li-Young Lee’s Shock Defense Mechanism for Memories in “Persimmons”
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Li-Young Lee’s poem “Persimmons” uses the words “persimmons” and “precision” to express an Asian American son who has managed to recover specific values from his invaluable warm memory and fading heritage reminding him of his father and mother. In association with persimmons, Lee arranges fragments of memories into the poem. Thus, the poem progresses with Lee’s shifts of topic and narratives all related to the central image of persimmons. Contrary to the speaker’s memory about persimmons, American culture teach students to cut persimmons with knife to eat and calls persimmons “Chinese apple” which gives him a culture shock snatching his warm memory about persimmons shaped by his parents and Chinese culture. Throughout his poem, Lee tries to keep the speaker’s own memories about persimmons and his parents from the shock. This thesis will study Lee’s shock defense mechanism with the memory concept Benjamin argues in his essay “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire.”
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Li-Young Lee’s poem “Persimmons” uses the words “persimmons” and “precision” to express an Asian American son who has managed to recover specific values from his invaluable warm memory and fading heritage reminding him of his father and mother. In association with persimmons, Lee arranges fragments of memories into the poem. Thus, the poem progresses with Lee’s shifts of topic and narratives all related to the central image of persimmons. Contrary to the speaker’s memory about persimmons, American culture teach students to cut persimmons with knife to eat and calls persimmons “Chinese apple” which gives him a culture shock snatching his warm memory about persimmons shaped by his parents and Chinese culture. Throughout his poem, Lee tries to keep the speaker’s own memories about persimmons and his parents from the shock. This thesis will study Lee’s shock defense mechanism with the memory concept Benjamin argues in his essay “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire.”
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