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Father to Son - Elizabeth Jennings

Textual Question and their Answer
1. Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience is it fairly universal?
2. How is the father's helplessness brought out in the poem?
3. Identify the phrases and lines that indicate distance between the father and the son.

Additional Questions and their Answer
1.Read the lines below and answer the questions that follow:
    Yet have I killed
 The seed in his and none of mine?
 We speak like strangers, there's no sign.
 Of understanding in the air.
    (a) Who as 'I' in these lines? Whom is he talking about?
    (b) Explain the meaning of the first sentence?
    (c) What is the poet's mood in these lines?
2.  What kind of relationship do the father and the son shere?
3. Why does the father feel that he and his son are like stangers to each other?
4. Why does the poet use the word 'prodigal' in the poem?
5. The anguish of the father comes very strongly in the poem. Show his fellings about his as expressed in the poem.

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