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    This 3 sentence summary provides the high level information from the poem "At Thirty-Nine" by Alice Walker: The poem celebrates the poet's father and his influence on her life, from teaching her the importance of education, saving money, and being morally upright from a young age. Despite losing her father, the narrator reflects on how she inherited her father's creative and generous nature, and how she has become a hardworking and joyous person just as her father was. The poem expresses the narrator's intense grief at losing her father while young but also her pride in continuing the virtues and lessons he instilled in her through his guidance.

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    This 3 sentence summary provides the high level information from the poem "At Thirty-Nine" by Alice Walker: The poem celebrates the poet's father and his influence on her life, from teaching her the importance of education, saving money, and being morally upright from a young age. Despite losing her father, the narrator reflects on how she inherited her father's creative and generous nature, and how she has become a hardworking and joyous person just as her father was. The poem expresses the narrator's intense grief at losing her father while young but also her pride in continuing the virtues and lessons he instilled in her through his guidance.

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    Poem at Thirty Nine

    Uploaded by

    Mohammad Azhar
    This 3 sentence summary provides the high level information from the poem "At Thirty-Nine" by Alice Walker: The poem celebrates the poet's father and his influence on her life, from teaching her the importance of education, saving money, and being morally upright from a young age. Despite losing her father, the narrator reflects on how she inherited her father's creative and generous nature, and how she has become a hardworking and joyous person just as her father was. The poem expresses the narrator's intense grief at losing her father while young but also her pride in continuing the virtues and lessons he instilled in her through his guidance.

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    Poem At Thirty-Nine

    Alice Walker

    Narrator: Barbara Njau


    Free verse poem is autobiographical Written likely when they
    - it celebrates the poet's father and were thirty-nine years old
    his influence on her life
    This is repeated in line 25, emphasising
    Monosyllabic language is very simple - her intense grief at losing her father
    showing she misses all aspects of her father and his significance in her life
    Intensifier Enjambment shows it is a constant stream of thought
    Starts her recollection of her
    father from her birth (she is the
    youngest of all children) Semantic field of business and
    money emphasises frugality and the
    father's focus on handling finances
    Repetition of first person pronoun - anaphora
    Despite being tired, her father set time
    aside to teach and empower his daughter
    Alliteration echoes his directions to her

    Declarative sentence emphasises


    the importance of education

    Informal, conversational
    She regrets he had to
    Highlights the importance of
    live such a difficult life
    saving as a way of securing
    financial freedom
    Repetition of line 8
    emphasises how Alliteration emphasises
    critical education is the importance of being
    morally upstanding

    This refers to corporal punishment for wrongdoing


    Possessive pronoun - she takes ownership
    Abstract noun is mysterious
    of her learning and empowerment
    As she grew up, she became independent
    with her own independent thoughts which
    Euphemism for death may have clashed with her father's views
    Repetition of line 1 - emphatic and emotional

    Simile shows father was joyous in an effortless way


    Very peaceful

    He cooked copious amounts


    Rhyme shows she takes pride in
    learning so avidly from her father Semantic field of cooking
    and food - this is a way she
    connected with her father
    Alliteration shows that just like her
    father, she too is effortlessly joyous

    She inherited her father's creative flair She inherited his generosity

    She is proud of the person she has become

    Contrasts with "born" in line 5 in verse 1 -


    Asyndeton shows she
    her journey is coming full circle
    became just as fastidious
    Present-continuous verb shows she is and hardworking as her
    being meditative and reflective father
    Symbol of life and vitality
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