Live within the moment. Life is too short to worry about what happened or what will happen; living within the moment is all we can do at this time. You wake up in the morning to the warmth of the sun shining on your face thankful that you were able to wake up today. As the door opens to the outside world, a deep inhale of crisp cold air paralyzes you for a brief moment long enough for you to experience the beauty of life. A quick turn of a key and your day has begun. Poet Li- Young Lee expresses this emotion in "A Story," a poem written about a complex relationship between a father and a son. Li- Young Lee uses specific point of view, hyperbole, and purposeful diction to display the complex relationship that although the son adores and looks up to his father, the father fears the day his son will leave his side. The most distinguished device in A Story is the use of point of view to see the father’s thoughts of his son. Early on in the poem, the son “waits upon his father's lap” for a new story to be told. While sitting in a room full of stories the father has come to an issue, “he can recall not one” story to entertain his son. He can only think of “the boy packing his shirts, and looking for his keys.” These orders of events are important to help understand the complex relationship the father has with his own son. The son innocently sits and waits for his father to read him one of the stories on the shelf, but as the son sits on his father's lap, the father has other thoughts on his mind. The father is thinking about what will happen in the future. He is imagining the son packing his clothes and looking for his keys to leave the lap of his fathers. He is thinking about the time his son will leave him and his stories to move forward in life. Towards the end of the poem it mentions that the “boy’s supplications and a father’s love add up to silence.” This is the end of the poem and it’s when the idea comes out t