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FATHER TO SON-HOME ASSIGNMENT

(i)I do not understand this child.

Though we have lived together now-------------------

------------This child is built to my design
Yet what he loves I cannot share.

a. Explain the line “yet have I killed the seed...”
b. What does the speaker mean by saying “the land is his and none of mine”?
c. Why have the two person become “strangers”?
d. Explain the line “this child is built to my design”.
e. What does the speaker mean by saying “what he loves I cannot share”?

(ii) silence surrounds us. I would have

him prodigal, returning to--------------------

-------------his world. I would forgive him too,

shaping from sorrow a new love
a. Which poetic device has been used in the first line?
b. Describe the father’s state of mind in the line “rather than see him make and
move his world”.
c. What would the father do in order to mend their relationship?

(iii) father and son, we both must live
on the same globe and the same land,-----------------

----------------We each put out an empty hand,

Longing for something to forgive.

a. Describe “anger grows from grief”
b. Why does the speaker say “I cannot understand why...”?
c. What, according to you, should the father and son do in order to resolve the crisis in
their relationship?
d. What does the father seem to long for in the last line?
e. Explain “we each put out an empty hand”.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of relationship exists between father and his son?