Terminal Resemblance

Terminal Resemblance

              The narrator in this poem shows us how her life with his father was. She misses her father. She didn't see her father for a long time ago. She starts the poem by mentioning that she does the same thing as her father. “When I saw my father for the last time, we both did the same thing"(Line1). Both of them usually said very few words to each other. She didn't have a good relationship with her father, "He'd say a few words. I'd say a few back.”(Line7) I'm wondering about her father. He didn't have any responsibilities for his daughter. In my opinion, anyone who wants to be a father must have responsibilities to his children. Also, the speaker shows us her suffering with her father "My father and I avoided being alone; / we didn't know how to connect to make small talk"(Line11-12). The speaker misses her father because he died. She starts talking about soul after death in lines 26-29. And how were souls taken around at their place. “Not people we knew anymore. New families / families with young children"(Line26-27).