While James Wright's poem "Lining in a Hammock" accentuates the despair in quickly fleeting moments, and Franz Wright's poem "Flight" exposes the consequences of an estranged father about a son longing for a relationship he never had, the two poems are linked by the underlying theme of detachment. It is evident that by juxtaposing these two works, divided by literary devices such as style or syntax, the underlying themes are circumstantially shared and induced by the difficulties of life itself. John Wright depicts someone else's farm, lying in a hammock; the poem appears to be in a conscious dreamlike state. The butterfly sleeps and blows like a leaf. Wright paints these dreamlike images of nature, his mind moving from the butterfly to the empty house to the retreating bells to the golden horse droppings to the time of day to the lone hawk. . Each example, each personification blurs the boundary between human and non-human life, the limit of reality. Each line, each image – visual or audio – is considered with the greatest respect, always building on the last. Every sentence is an essential part of the process, no note should be ignored. Neither the two trees, nor the embellished horse droppings, nor even the title should be left without pause and reflection. The title tells the reader that Wright is fundamentally out of place; he is on someone else's farm, absorbed by his surroundings, unconsciously compelled by the ethereal painting of nature to feel as if he does not belong there. Unfortunately, the reader may not fully understand this until the end of the poem, in which he declares that he has wasted his life. The reader is forced to believe that part of his appreciation is a kind of sadness that comes from the poet's lack of tangi...... middle of paper...... -far away, light years away Wright jerks back a gaping, if any, distance, closer than his bones, systematically arranged for emphasis. The memory of his father is like a wound that refuses to heal. The reader can feel the direct absentia, the pain. In the fourth and final segment of Flight, the past and the present collide; set in 1963, the poet retains his age of 45 years. James and Franz Wright share the feeling of being trapped behind a glass wall, James from the outside world and Franz from his father. At the end of Franz's poem, the wall does not dissolve but expands to encompass father and son. Franz Wright's final section relieves him of some of the desire that was gnawing at him. Wright's dream is the only place where he can find his father, the only place where they can be "together, walking and happily talking, laughing and breathing »..”