Question

normally,when we learn something we feel a sense of achievement but in poem, your a time why does the father feel sorry to have learnt many things

Answer 1

The father feels to have learnt many things because they are fake and insincere things. They are also considered hypocrisies. These things don’t bring one lasting happiness and contentment. One has to regret them. The father too has tasted the futility and dissatisfaction of harbouring these evil things. So, he wants to get rid of them. He wants to be the same sincere person he used to be once upon a time in the past. He appeals to his son to teach him that child-like sincerity.