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What type relationship between Father and son in poem "Father to son"?

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Father to Son Analysis

I do not understand this child

(…)

He was when small.

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In this first stanza of the poem, Father to Son by Elizabeth Jennings, the poet shows father saying that he has not succeeded in understanding his son because, he himself could not grow up with his son. This might be because when the son was growing differently, the father might have been busy in his chores, and would have kept himself aloof from the changes taking place in the outer world.

The narrow-mindedness of the father might have stopped him to understand the changes his son would have been experiencing. But now, the father, having failed to comprehend the height of his son’s emotional growth, is making attempt to understand him as a child instead of trying to know the changed world wherein his son is growing up.

However, the type of relationship the father now wants to develop with his son will do more harms than any good for the father will always think that his son is still a little child and is so far not in such a condition when he is able to understand his actual person.

Answer 2

"Father to Son" deals with an estranged relationship, lack of understanding and an absence of a rapport between a father and his son.