Nick Rose

     Looking at the poem "Questions my son asked me, Answers that I never gave him" the are many examples of connotation, for example when the son asks "could we xerox the moon?" he father gives him the first commandment in another form. Also when the son asks many of his questions his father gives him a question as an answer, this is, in my opinion a bridge between connotation and denotation, it is connotation because the questions are easy to answer, and the right answer can be thought of relatively quickly, but it denotation because the answers are exact, for example "can bread go back to the field of its birth?" this answer to this is no, and if we looked up the question that the son asked "will the sleep in my eye roll up into my head?" we would find the answer to be no. Many of the stanzas bridge the gap between the two, and this causes the poem to be very interesting. 

Nick Rose