Letter and Other Worlds

The poem "Letters and Other Worlds" by Micheal Ondaatje is about the narrator's father who is suffering from alcoholism. Because of this alcoholism, the narrator was never able to connect with his father. His mother and father are not on good terms either which only worsened the situation. In the end, he was never able to reconcile with his father and has left him with nothing but regret.

Poem on the drawing

He sat there thinking
he was so concentrated that he wasn't even blinking
There was a sad look on his face
As if he had lost all his grace

Did something happen to him?
He also looked a bit too slim
As I wondered, a strange came over
And I was assured that the man just had a hangover


Speaker: Another person in the room
audience: Anyone interested in the artwork
messages: Don't judge people after a single glance

Peer editor: Harry Kim