Poetry Unbound

Denise Low — Walking with My Delaware Grandfather

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Apr 15, 2022
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ANECDOTE

Grandfather As Living Presence

  • Denise Low recounts a constant presence: her Delaware grandfather who 'still walks the streets' with her.
  • She links physical traits and household memories to that ongoing companionship and inheritance.
INSIGHT

Present Tense Makes Past Immediate

  • Host argues the poem keeps the past alive by using present-tense verbs to make ancestral presence felt now.
  • The body (heart, pulse, chin) becomes the poem's 'time bridge' that proves history is living.
INSIGHT

Form Mirrors Relationship

  • The poem's visual form echoes companionship: indented second lines act like a presence following the first.
  • Word links (e.g., "his" and "this") also mirror kinship and continuity across generations.
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