Reference no: EM133392199
Assignment:
First stanza
October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchen
I study my father's embarrassed young man's face.
Sheepish grin, he holds in one hand a string of spiny yellow perch, in the other a bottle of Carlsbad Beer.
1. The speaker in the poem is the son of the father in the photograph.
Why might the kitchen be "unfamiliar" to the son (the speaker)?
Why might the speaker be studying a photograph of his father? Where is the father?
2. Explain what the speaker of the poem means when he describes his father as having a "[s]heepish grin."
What emoticon might the father's grin best resemble?
3. What is "a string of spiny yellow perch"?
4. Why do you think Carver chose to name the brand of the beer (Carlsbad)? Why not just say "bottle of beer"?