A Study Guide for Andrew Hudgins's "Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead"
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Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead
Andrew Hudgins
1991
Introduction
Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead
was published by Houghton Mifflin, in 1991, in The Never-Ending, Andrew Hudgins’s third volume of poems. The poem calls itself an elegy
in the first half of the title, and thus we expect to hear a poetic lament for someone who has died. But Hudgins puts a strange twist on the ancient genre, elegia. This poem is an elegy for someone who is not yet dead, namely, the poet’s father. In the first two lines, Hudgins voices for many readers that secret dread of hearing that a parent has died. The poem anticipates mourning for his father, but because he is not dead,
another kind of elegy is also at work. Death will be one sort of distance eventually separating father from son; meanwhile, there are vast distances between them in life. His father, in the sureness of his faith,
is ready… to see fresh worlds.
The son is clearly not so sure and is instead convinced / his ship’s gone down.
The poem is thus a kind of double elegy. It mourns both what is and what is not to be.
Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead
witnesses what numerous other poems and memoirs tell of Hudgins’s relationship with both his father and his faith. When Hudgins speaks elsewhere of his father, it is with a complex mixture of fear, admiration, exasperation, awe, and sadness. An essay published in The Washington Post reconstructs a childhood that belonged in some fundamental way to my father and the U.S. Air Force, not me.
In his uniform, Hudgins’s father radiated authority, presence, a forceful place in the world
; in a suit, he looked strangely diminished.
But for all its authority,
the uniform also became a symbol of the essential distance from his sons, none of whom Hudgins believes would have flourished
in the military, least of all me,
he says. The pattern of not following
his father is traced along yet another painful path in this quirky elegy.
This son has followed neither his father’s path in life nor his contemplated route to death. The disjunctions between father and son, to borrow the book’s title, appear