For My Daughter is a poem written by Weldon Kees. The poem is one stanza consisting of fourteen lines and has a rhyme scheme of ababccdedeffgg. Kees writes this poem to his daughter. Overall the poem has a pretty dark feel to it.
The poem starts off with the author looking into his daughters eyes. He talks about how his daughter looks innocent on the outside, even though she is nearing death. The body of the poem is the author discussing how his daughter is dying. Kees uses imagery to describe how his daughter has been through a lot and is gradually dying. Kees uses the phrase "the nights slow poison" to show how his daughters time is coming to end. At the end of a poem Kees uses an interesting line. He says "I have no daughter, I desire none." This makes me feel that Kees daughter was dead when he wrote this poem. I feel that this poem was just describing his daughters last few years alive. The last three words of this poem "I desire none" are the strongest to me. They just show how much Kees loves his daughter, that he doesn't want another child because he can't replace her.
he never had children. his wife became an alcoholic and mentally ill. why it happened? maybe they tried but couldn't have kids, maybe he never really wanted one. i guess no one will know.
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