This poem was by far one of my favorites, I loved reading the other students posts and what it meant to them. I was surprised to see how many students took a positive away from this poem and I had to read it quite a few times before I could get what they were seeing.
For me I saw something very violent, growing up with an alcoholic father I could see in my mind how it used to be at home and it was very similar to this poem, it would always start out innocent but then all of a sudden something would cause him to be angry and things would go crashing down around me as my mom looked on and did nothing.
As I read other students posts though I did go back and read it over and over again and I started to see how this was just a boy who loved his father and wanted to hold onto him tightly because he missed him. It's interesting when you read poems like this because depending on the person's background they take away something completely different, it's interesting how our minds are wired so differently.
I also had to read this poem multiple times to get a clear understanding of what it really meant. My first paper I wrote of it for one of our Pod assignments was from my own thoughts of what it meant. After reading through some of the discussion posts though my view of it changed. It is nice to see others opinions of the poem so you can see something you might have missed.
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