FATHER TO SON
Class 11 PCMB English Poetry Summary
FATHER TO SON
~Summary~
-by Elizabeth Jennings
![FOR ANNE GREGORY](https://gyanchakra.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screenshot_1-133.png)
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.
![FATHER TO SON](https://gyanchakra.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screenshot_1-438.png)
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.
![FATHER TO SON](https://gyanchakra.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screenshot_2-346.png)
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 TO SON](https://gyanchakra.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screenshot_3-311.png)
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.
![FATHER TO SON](https://gyanchakra.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screenshot_4-285.png)
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