Father to son …

-Elizabeth Jennings

Presented by :-
Moh.Hafiz
& zeeshan
 Generation Gap…

Generation gap is  a situation in which

  

older and younger people do  not

understand each other because of their
different experiences opinions, ideologies,
habits and behavior.
 POEM…
I do not understand this child
Though we have lived together now
In the same house for years. I know
Nothing of him, so try to build
Up a relationship from how
He was when small. Yet have I killed

The seed I spent or sown it where

The land is his and none of mine?
We speak like strangers, there’s no sign
Of understanding in the air.
This child is built to my design
Yet what he loves I cannot share.
 POEM…
Silence surrounds us. I would have
Him prodigal, returning to
His father’s house, the home he knew,
Rather than see him make and move
His world. I would forgive him too,
Shaping from sorrow a new love.

Father and son, we both must live

On the same globe and the same land,
He speaks: I cannot understand
Myself, why anger grows from grief.
We each put out an empty hand,
Longing for something to forgive.
Explanation…
 First Stanza…

The poet shares his feelings regarding his relationship with his son. He doesn't
understand or know anything about his son in spite of living together for many years.
He is trying to continue a relationship like how when he was small.

 
Second Stanza…
In this stanza father acknowledges his role in the communication gap between his
child and himself.  He has taken all effort to bring him up as he wished. But his son
has got his own mental plane.  His son was in a place that he could not access.
 Third Stanza…

There is silence between the father and the son. The father very badly wishes that like
Prodigal son his son also comes back to his house after realizing his mistakes.

Fourth Stanza… 
The son speaks for the first time in the stanza. He was also found to be sad about
the gap arose between them. He does not understand himself. Both are ready to
forgive each other .  As a gesture of that they put out an empty hand . But neither
places his in the other's hand.
 Prodigal Son…

Prodigal son is a character from New Testaments Parables of Jesus.  in the story a
father has got two sons traditionally the eldest is the heir to the family property. 
But here the younger demanded his inheritance, leaves home, spends his fortune
foolishly and returns to  his father's house empty handed.

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