Saturday, August 13, 2011

Can anyone help with the poem On My First Sonne?

There is tension between intellectual and emotional reactions. His son has escaped through death all the miseries of life. The father knows that God is just, that his son was only lent to him, but all this knowledge is at variance with his emotional response to the loss of his seven-year-old - his natural grief bursts the bonds of the intellectual restraint. By emphasizing the happy relationship he had with his son, a child of joy, the father attempts to restrain his sorrow, to balance his present grief by memory of former happiness. If his son is his best piece of poetry, then the significance of the child's death is very great indeed. ♥

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