The Awakenings Analysis

The first part of the poem tells us a lot of things, like complaints, sacrifice, and respect. “The Whiskey of your breath could make a small boy dizzy”. He describes his feeling when he sees his father drunk, and how he suffers from this thing since childhood. “Such waltzing was not easy” he implied that he had to bearing the smell from his father because of the whiskey. He used the word “like death” to describe how he is suffers from the smell. He showed us how he respect and love his father. In this line “but I hung on like death” the boy hold onto his father shirt not because of fear but he did not want to fall of while he dance with his father. Another line describe the relationship between the boy and his father” still cling to your