Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead

What is the theme in Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead by Andrew Hudgins?

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Parents and children are a central theme in the poem. Hudgins's elegy for his still-living father is certainly not the only poem that blends his preoccupation with his parents' death and dying. "My Father's Corpse" humorously reconstructs a memory from early childhood: