Analysis of Yvor Winter's "To My Daughter, 1954"

There comes a time in everyone's life that they must break away from their family and push through life on their own standards. With only the simple dedication of this poem; "To My Daughter, 1954" one can only derive that Yvor Winters had a very close relationship with his daughter and it pained him deeply to let her go out on her own into the real world. In the first stanza; "This is the terminal: the …

…to do with her life. He can no longer tell her what she should do, but he will always be there waiting for her and will always support her. This poem is about life and letting those you love go out into the world and do things their own way. The airport is a point of departure, the moment when father and daughter must separate. Although this is hard to do it must be done.