The poem “Making Frankenstein” dramatizes Wyatt Prunty’s familiarities to Frankenstein beginning with his childhood persistence that eventually seeps into his adulthood instincts. Prunty’s work ultimately portrays how the kid turns out to be akin to his father, and therefore much like Frankenstein as well. “Making Frankenstein” opens with young Wyatt Prunty begging his parents to see the movie “The Curse of Frankenstein”. Prunty’s persistency of pleading to see the movie leads to his parents denial stating that “He could not, no, he could not, no”(Line 1). The repetition of this line exhibits the kid’s youthful curiosity and doggedness, which later lashes back at him, “but midnight he woke up screaming”(line 10). Youthfulness and curiosity mixed together can elicit fear at that stage in one’s life, which can both be positive and negative in molding your personality into a more …show more content…
The story develops more and more with each following stanza, and after a while he begins to remember in more vivid detail and expands his usage of imagery, symbolism, and metaphors. The author’s use of enjambment by ending each stanza with the first sentence of the following one shows that he is attempting to give a sense of confusion while making the poem more authentic to real life. Prunty not only develops his personality as the poem continues, but his style of writing as well, to show his maturation as the years proceed. His incorporation of these key details to the poem aid in improving its underlying meaning and flow. In the third stanza, the author includes personifications such as “fireflies telegraphed their kind”(line 19) and “window units swallowed oceans of air”(line 21). His assimilation of these personifications represents the younger author’s exploration of mature thoughts to help him better understand his father’s criticisms of the movie being “too anatomical” (Line