"The Gift" by Li-Young Lee

In the poem “The Gift”, by Li-Young Lee, he tells us how the things we learn from our superiors at a young age stay with us for us to use when we are older. He also explains when we are young, little things tend to seem gigantic to us. He tells us of an experience he had with a splinter and how he felt like he would have died from it, until his dad was so gracious as to take it out, and to tell him a soothing story as he worked. Also, another point I got from this poem was that he did not mind when he didn’t remember the story that his dad told him, but he did remember the sound of his voice and that it calmed him down so he wasn’t worried about the sliver. From his memories of that, he could then take the sliver out of his wife’s hand gently and without pain.