Question

father to son poem word meanings

Answer 1

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Here is a father who feels the extreme pain of his son's detachment with him. Father understands the son as a child but the son has already begun considering himself as a grown up. A lot of space is left between the father and the son. Will they ever come closer? ✔✔

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The poem presents a father’s illusions about his son. The father feels so helpless because he has not been able to understand his son’s emotional growth for some time, since his adolescence. Though the father blames his son, it is the father who is really blamed. The same father who says that he does not understand his son also tells many things about his son for sure. This irony questions the father’s ingenuity and integrity. Who is responsible for the lack of understanding: father or son? The father says it is his son but I would say, it is the father! To understand the dark side of the Gentleman in the father, read the questions and answers....✔✔

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The father in the poem says that he has failed to understand his son because he could not grow with his son.Probably, when the son grew differently, the narrow-minded father felt uneasy and indifferent. He didn’t make any attempt to understand the changed world where his son grew up.The father, having failed to know the height of his son’s emotional growth, is trying to understand him as a child rather than attempting to understand what his son is at the moment.This sort of a relationship that the father is trying to build with his son will do more harms than any good because the father will always think that his son is a little child and will not understand his actual person.The father failed to understand his son. Instead of growing with his son, he attempted to build a relation with him understanding him as a little child whom he used to know and used to love.The father feels helpless because he is sad about the gap between his son and himself.The father had always wanted his son built as per his design but the son went astray and became what he wanted. The sun made a design for himself and lived a life that he designed. For the father, the son was his seed that he expected to grow and take branches under his shade but now he finds that his expectations from his son have all gone waste.The father in the poem had a great expectation from his son but the son didn’t grow up to his expectations and designs. This deviation started when the son found his father’s design for him inappropriate and designed his own life in his way.The father of the son appears to be self-centered because of a few reasons. He, in the first place, has a design for his son because he believes that the son would not be able to design his own life.The line has got multiple meaning which is a pun. Here, while “what he loves” may refer to the things, trends and people that the son loves, “I cannot share” has got more than just a meaning. In the first place it means the father is ashamed of mentioning his son’s crazes and in the other, the father is not allowed to or not willing to share what his son uses.No father in his senses would wish his son go away from him, ruin himself, struggle and get lost. The father in the poem, surprisingly, wishes that his son goes away from him because he believes that one day his son would return as the prodigal son in the Bible.It is out of his extreme attachment to his son that the father wishes his son go away from him, like the prodigal son in the Bible. Just like the Biblical son had to go through a lot of struggles to finally realize his father’s love for him, the father in the poem also wants his son to go from him for some time only to return to his love.The poem ends without any solution for the problem that the father is lamenting....✔✔



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Answer 2

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