Poetry Analysis- Hudgins

Analysis of "Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead" Andrew Hudgins' diction, point of view and tone used in "Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead" convey feelings of fear, jealousy and uncertainty in the possibility of an afterlife. The speaker, discussing the future death of his father, is forced to confront his own convictions as to the finality of death. All religions have a belief in a "life after death" in some …

…questions the uncertainty of life hereafter, he produces an opportunity for the reader to reflect and search his own beliefs. Each person, regardless of his race, nationality or financial status, will some day face death and the possibility of an afterlife. Hudgins entices each of us to search our own beliefs and resolve the matter in our own faith. Shall we look at death as an end or as a beginning of a new journey?