Definitions of Families Memories from the past never die. Recently we were reading two very interesting poems about the childhood of the two poets: Linda Hogan and Robert Hayden.They didn’t meet with each other, and were growing up in the different families, but they had similar problems. They were the kids who hadn’t very good memories from the their childhood, and they didn’t have a happy childhood.
In The Blair Reader, the editors presented many works about different families and memories. For example, Linda Hogan presented her poem “Heritage” and Robert Hayden wrote about his father in “Those Winter Sundays.” From those readings, different types of families were explored. The readings in this unit presented different types of families: however, for me, a family is group of people who love
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She wasn’t happy because she didn’t have a good relationship with her family, especially her father and mother. Hogan learns the secrets of what it means to be half Native American and half European American. However, there is no way that she can bring together both traditions. She starts with her mom with whom she has some mixed memories. Some are positive like the ‘’smell of the baking bread’’p.( 35)and ‘’antique mirror’’ p.(35), because it is expensive and valuable and also the ‘’face take on her lines’’ because she seems to be proud of those facial lines. For negative example, Hogan also wrote about “she left the large white breasts that weigh down my body.” About her father she remember just his brown eyes, in particular, she wrote “I take his brown eyes, the plague of locusts that leveled our crops they flew in formation like buzzards,”and thus Hogan showed her negative attitude to father. Linda’s family learned the secrets of never having a home. She had two different blood lines from two different races, and