Question Description
A note before you post: Everyone in this class comes from a different family structure and background. Please be mindful and respectful of your classmates in your posting for this week.
Last week, we looked at poems about work in America, and read an article about a struggling family and their relationship with work and disability support. This week, we've read three poems about family and read an article about how the American family has changed in recent years.
In the readings for both this week and last week, we can see how family structure and success is intertwined with employment and economic stability. There's also the emotional work of maintaining strong relationships within a family, even in difficult situations.
For our Week 12 posting, I want you to consider some of these connections between work and family. Choose one or more of the following questions to answer in your post (you do not need to respond to all of these questions):
– Consider the emotional work of connecting with one's brother described in "What Work Is" by Philip Levine https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52173/what-work-is
and the failure to build a meaningful relationship between father and son in "Negative Space" by Ron Koertge (https://wordsfortheyear.com/2014/12/19/negative-space-by-ron-koertge/) . Is it difficult in modern America to build and maintain meaningful relationships within family structures? How does the economy, employment, and the changing shape of the American family play a role in our ability to build and maintain strong loving relationships within families?
– Consider the role of the kitchen table as the heart of the family in "Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo
Is the kitchen table the heart of the family in modern America? If not, what has replaced it?
– Consider the how isolating and tedious the work of maintaining a family and a household is as described in the poem "Mother, Washing Dishes" by Susan Meyers
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53575/mother-washing-dishes
Do we acknowledge how difficult the work of maintaining a family is in modern America? Why is it so difficult to strike a balance between maintaining a functional household and a successful career? What would make striking this balance easier?
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