Lack of Forgiveness in Lucille Clifton's poem Forgiving My Father

The title of Lucille Clifton's poem "Please forgive my father" seems to be clearly opposed to the poem itself. I do not seem to forgive, but the title insists that it exists. The entire poem concentrates on the debt of the author's father. "It's Friday," she said. "Pay a bill" (1-2). But this may not necessarily mean that Friday is actually Friday, perhaps she may mean that it's finally, debt is love, not money. Clifton uses currency debt to symbolize the debt of love and love.

Mr. Clifton spoke a lot of things with very few words, in particular, "Please forgive my father." This poem consists of three sections telling her father's incompetent story. In the first section, the reader saw that her family was economically unstable during her childhood in Clifton. In this poem she admitted her mother for the mental and physical abuses she had to endure. Clifton said in an interview with Mr. Clifton and Michael S. Glaser, "I know she is an unfortunate woman" (Glaser 314). In "Please forgive my father," Clifton expressed heartache for her mother during this period.

Lucille Clifton was born on 27th June 1936, at Thelma Lucille Sayles in Depew, New York. Her parents are Samuel and Thelma Moore Sayles. Her father is a steel worker and her mother is a washing worker and housewife. Clifton was born with six fingers on both hands. This is the function she shared with her mother and shared with her later. This feature has become an important theme in Clifton's poetry. Clifton's parents did not graduate from elementary school; although her father could read it, he never learned to write. Meanwhile, her mother was a poet and created poetry on a traditional shade scale. Even though Lucille moved to Buffalo in New York at the age of seven, the life of the Cels family was not comfortable. Her father is erotic, very cruel for her mother, and her mother is also suffering from epilepsy.