Find quotes from this poem, with commentary from Shmoop. Pick a theme below to begin.
Gender Quotes
With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack I may be a bit of a Jew. (lines 37-40)
Mortality Quotes
Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time – (lines 6-7)
The Supernatural Quotes
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic (lines 8-11)
Language and Communication Quotes
Daddy, I have had to kill you. (line 6)
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. (lines 1-5)