Introduction Rose by Li-Young Lee has a depth of melancholy and contemplation that makes it significant and insightful to the reader. Lee uses his personal experiences in life in a manner that addresses many questions about whether he is attempting to drive them from his inner self. These poems are incredibly intimate, but they also have a global appeal. The main theme of their work of Lee is to show how the present is interrelated with the past. Lee tends to dwell more on his father’s memories. Lee’s father is present in all of Lee’s creations in Rose, both existence and demise. This essay is going to Focus on images and specific words that depict the father/son theme in the poems; The Gift, Visions and interpretations, Persimmons, and Epistle. The Gift The poem “The Gift” is about the author Li-Young Lee’s early experience of his father deftly taking a metallic blade from his tender, small hand. Lee recalls his father teaching him identity and tolerance on that particular day hence enhancing the father-son connection during his infancy. This taught him the importance of endurance when faced with tough moments. The father-son bond is well depicted in this poem. The narrator remembers his father narrating to him a story in a silent, restful manner to pull metal from his hand. Although the presenter was in excruciating agony, “before the story concluded, he’d detached the iron sliver/I thought I would pass away from” (4-5), his father’s narrative approach assisted him in forgetting about it. He does not recall the precise narrative his father told him on the day, but he remembers how he helped him cope with his pain, which left him in awe of his loving father. Over the years, he carefully takes the metallic splinter pin from his wife’s hand, causing her no discomfort. He vividly remembers that he was only seven years old when he experienced similar pain and that his father’s gentleness consoled him in his grief. As a result, he attempts to authorize the virtue of compassion that he inherited from his father to his spouse. Visions and interpretation Visions and Interpretations is a thoughtful description of a family tragedy, the speaker’s father’s, and he tries to make meaning of it. It’s poetry that goes backward in history to better comprehend the present and to discover some facts. Grief is a central theme, ‘truth is, I’ve not seen my father/ since he died, and, no, the dead’ (17-18). The narrator, the son, makes repeated attempts to put his father’s death into context. The poem functions as a therapeutic aid, a tranquil, almost rational account that flows along on a current of deep feeling. The poem is all about a youthful man’s visions after his father dies of old age. The son goes into depth about the various hallucinations he gets about touring the cemeteries. He confesses that the deceased do not accompany him to their tombs up the hill. Flowers are not carried for him by the dead when he delivers them. He tells his son about the revelation he had about his deceased father. He and his son were already intimate, but these dreams were pulling them even closer. “And what was far becomes near/and what was near becomes more dear,” he says (32-33). What he views is him and