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Write a brief summary of the poem " Father to Son " .

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a brief summary of the poem " Father to Son " .

The father complains that he does not understand his own child. Though they have lived together for so many years now i.e. since the time of his sons birth, the father knows nothing of him. The father tries to build up a relationship with his son from the early years, in a manner when his son began to recognize people around, to crawl and to walk in a desperate attempt. The father wonders whether he has destroyed the seed of his off-spring or sown it where the land belongs to his heir and none is his. Both father and son continue to speak like strangers now and there seem no signs of understanding in the air between the two. In traditional belief, the son is created and born to the likings and designs of his father, yet in this case, the father cannot share what his son loves. Most of the time silence surrounds them. The fathers greatest wish is for his son to be The Prodigal son who will very soon return to his fathers house; the home which he always knew. This is definitely the better alternative rather than to see his son move out into the world blindly on his own, by himself and fall into trouble. The father is ready to forgive him at any cost as long as he is able to reshape him up from the long bounded sorrow to a new love. Both father and son all over the world must learn to live on the same globe and on the same land. The father finally admits that there are times that he cannot understand himself or why his anger grows from grief? However they have learnt to put out each others empty hand and with each others heart that is longing for something to forgive.

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Father to sonis a poem describing the troubled relationship between a father and his son, in the present times. The poem emphasises the generation-gap between the father and the son and expresses the fathers pain and helplessness in failing to understand his child. The father realizes the distance between them and wishes to bridge the gap.

The father remarks that though they have been living in the same house for years now, he does not understand his son. As he knows nothing about his son, he tries to build the same relationship that he enjoyed when his son was a small child.

The father wonders if he is responsible for destroying the basic personality of his son or if his son now belongs to a world to which his father does not. He regrets their talking like strangers and lack of understanding. The son is much like his father in appearance but they do not share common interest or taste.

Silence is what surrounds their relationship and there is a complete lack of communication between them. The father wishes his son to return to him in his own surroundings rather than see him move out to make his own different world. The father is ready to forgive his son for everything and rebuild the relationship to have a new start.

The father feels that they should live together. He admits that he himself is unable to understand how his grief gives way to anger. They wish to resolve their differences but it seems difficult to live together in harmony.

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The poem, 'Father to Son' describes a strange relationship between a father and his son due to lack of communication and generation gap. The father is longing to restablish the relationship he had with his son when his son was a kid and his emotions of grief, sorrow and anger have been expressed in the poem. Even though both the father and the son lived under the same roof, they talked like strangers. He fears that he had killed the seed on which he had spent all his life and time in terms of values and interest. He planned the birth and the career of the child but the father still cannot tell what his son feels. Love and laughter was replaced by profound silence. The father gives a Biblical refernce and says that he will accept his prodigal son even though he has wasted all the money and value he gave to his son. He is also ready to forgive his son if he asks for forgiveness. He wants both of them to live under one roof and in one world. Anger is growing out of his grief. At the end, a deadlock is created in their relationship.
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