Winged Seed: A Remembrance By Li-Young Lee

The American poet, Li-Young Lee was born in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 19, 1957 to a powerful family. Influences around him encouraged him to find his passion and he did. Now, poetry is part of his life and has won severe awards for sharing his talented with the audience. Lee’s family was very influential and powerful. His great grandfather, Yuan Shikai, was the first president of the Republic of China from 1912 to 1916, which at one point tried to become emperor but failed.His father, Lee Kuo Yuan, was a profound and religious Christian who had been the personal physician for Mao Tse-tsung when he was still at China during the civil war. Later, he relocated his family to Indonesia and helped found Gamaliel University, a religious college,
He puts so much emotion and vivid details in them that you came imagine how everything was and looked like. For example, The famous and award winning book he published in 1995, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, makes memory of his family’s journey from Indonesia to Pennsylvania. It’s a compelling story that uses such great language and talks about how he was adapting to the new world that he now lived in and the new reality he face ever since he left his hometown. His first book of poems called Rose (New Poets of America) was first published on September 1, 1986. It’s describe as extraordinary because he showed all his emotions and wasn’t afraid of it. From his path to America from Indonesia and from blindness and to his father’s death he describes as something that can become beautiful. He uses a strong technique that make all his writing interesting and quickly catch the eye of the reader. They are so original that can suprise the audience that want something unique and with style. The poem he wrote, The Gift, describes how his father gave him care, tenderness, and love to him when he was younger and was removing a splinter in his hand. Whenever he says that his father was giving him a silver tear means that his father had given him was something very precious and meaningful to him and when he kisses him is to show appreciation and to thank him for the wonderful experience he had given him, not knowing that later on in his life, he would applied the same tenderness to his loving wife. The poem doesn’t have rhyme because most of the time he would write in free verse and just let the words fall on the paper. Another one of his major works is The City Which I Love You, shows strong emotions like love and has also won awards because of how vivid the writing is. The way he writes his poetry is a way that the audience can feel what he felt, see what he saw, hear what he heard, and live what he