Father to Son
Questions and Answers
1.How is the father helplessness brought out in the poem?
Ans:- The helplessness of the father is highlighted through the depiction of the emotional struggle that he undergoes. He is aware of the problem and is willing to resolve it, but is unable to do so. He regrets the lack of a strong emotional bond and proper communication with his son who is also physically distanced from him.
2. Why do father and son speak like strangers?
Ans:- The father and his son speak like strangers because there is no mutual understanding between the two. They have different ways of living there life. Though the father wanted his son to be like him, the opposite happens.
3. Explain 'I know nothing of him'.
Ans:- The father and the son have become complete strangers to each other. Complete silence surrounds them. When they are in each other's preasence. That is why the father days that he knows nothing of his son.
4. What kind of relationship does he want to build up?
Ans:- The father wants to build up the same kind of relationship as he used to when his son was a Little child.
5. Why did the father not understand his child ?
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Write central/main idea of the poem 'Father to Son'.
Ans:- The Father does not understand his son with whom he has lived for a long time in the Some house because the child has now grown up and lives in his own world. The lacks feeling of any relationship with his father. He is now emotionally seperated from his father.
6. What does the father think of his 'prodigal son'?
Ans:- The father want's his 'prodigal son' to return home and live with him in the same house. He does not want his 'prodigal son' to move in a different world. The father is also ready to forgive his son.
7. Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal?
Ans:- The poem describes a father's agony over a Sence of estrangment from his son. The father gave all his have when the son was a little child. But when the son grew up, both the sun and the father became strangers to each other. Though the poem describes a personal experience, this feeling of emotional estrangement is fairly universal. Children when they grow up form a world of their own.
8. Does the father wants to forgive his son?why?
Ans:- The father wants to forgive his son. The father wants to because he felt very sad and forlorn. He. longed to build the same relationship with his son that he had when the son was a child, The father is ready to accept his son.
