Analysis Of The Poem Grandmother By Mervyn Morris

He uses an agrarian imagery and further he questions whether he has lost his own child, his son due to the distance between them or was the son on a mental plane that was entirely his own and which, the father cannot access. The father uses ‘I’ in these lines admiting his own role in making this communication gap between them.

The father and son have become strangers with no understanding of each other. Conventionally, the son’s nurturing is in the very environment and with the values the father provided. Thus, the father feels his son is built to design and should be like his father in most aspects. However, his son now has interests the father cannot share. There is no shared passion; no common ground. Most of the times there is only an uncomfortable silence between them. The frustration of the father is evident as he struggles to understand whyh is son his flesh and blood, has turned an

It focuses on the remorse guilt she felt, and perhaps still she feels. The poem is divided into four parts. The first stanza describes her grandmother working in the shop, the second the incident that causes her guilt, the third stanza shows her in retirement. In the final stanza after her grandmother has died, the speaker reflects on herself and her grandmother’s life. The first stanza sets the scene; the antique shop reflects the character and life of the grandmother. The words ‘it kept her ‘suggest that it seems, to the speaker, her only reason for living; the grandmother’s concern is with surface appearance not with deep human feelings. Her solitariness is suggested in the fact that it is only ‘her own reflection’ she sees reflected in. Although it is first person narrative, this is also partly an elegy, in that it remembers a dead person. It is not a typical elegy, as the narrator specifically states that she feels no