The last line continued to throw me off the track. Although I believe it's describing what the daughter is seeing. The sonnet begins to explain that the daughter' flesh is innocent, but underneath, liesthis dark evil perception that are "sour in the sun" (Kees, 14). Although it's a theory, more like an educated guess but I wish I knew exactly what the poem was talking about.
Yes, the last line of Kees' poem is ambiguous and every one of your classmates who has posted about this poem has said so as well. We can interpret it as the speaker does not have a daughter or wished he/she didn't have a daughter. But this all depends on how we interpret the entire poem. When the speaker says "Looking into my daughter's eyes I read/Beneath the innocence of morning flesh/Concealed, hintings of death she does not heed," what does he/she mean that by looking he/she reads(Kees 1-3)? As you say whatever the speaker sees is something dark, evil yet it "sour[s] in the sun"(Kees 13). What does it mean that whatever the speaker sees changes with the sun? At what time of the day does the speaker see these dark and evil things? What does it mean to heed?
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