Fatherly Love

In the poem “A Story” by Li-Young Lee, the central tension is the father’s love. The child asks for a new story to be told. The child just sits there while the dad tries to think of a new story to tell. The father is too caught up in thinking about the future of his child leaving and not wanting to hear any stories that he forgets about the story to tell his child now. The flashforward within the story shows the tension  that will be caused if the dad does not tell a new story. The father’s love creates two things; it creates the vision you get of how much the father loves his child and it also creates the tension between the father and the child from not telling a story.