Thursday, October 6, 2011

Elegy for my Father–Central Theme

 “He's right he, In the sureness of his faith”. “I can just say goodbye as cheerfully”.

 The theme of this poem is that the older generation is often times more understanding of death than the younger generation. The use can't seem to come to terms with their own mortality because they haven't lived long enough to consider death. Their lives are just beginning. They can't “say goodbye” because they haven't got snow this world yet well enough to fully understand that it's not forever. Often times the younger generations will act out and live dangerously not fully thank you the consequences, which are alternately death or serious injury. But, the older generations have had time to think about this and have come to terms with death. They might see has been as simply a “fresh world”. This world to be explored only after death, to wait for the younger generation to feel the same, and get old and join them.

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