Kimfuji's analysis of this poem is very good. His father was absent but the effect of the
circumstances of that absence and his mother's unresolved reaction to it had
left a haunting
presence of his father. I especially like what Kimfuji wrote about the "sins of the father.." I
have to disagree with her last sentence though. The poem is factual. Solomon Kunitz did
commit suicide and Stanley was slapped for bringing out his portrait but the father did not
kill the son, he wounded him. Stanley Kunitz was able to confront this, reconcile with it and
live successfully as a poet until he was 100!
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