Little boy crying

There are many aspects of implied, some of it are in line 4 “With three-year-old frustration” this implied us that the little boy is a very young boy of only 3 years old. Other implied is in line 8 “the ogre towers above you, that grim giant” this implied that the father is a third person who is a gigantic person hitting a little boy. In addition, another implied that has taken place in the poem is in line 12, “Chopping clean the tree he’s scrambling down” this implied us that someone is cutting things down, which lead us to know that the father is hitting the little boy hardly. Furthermore, the implied in line 15 “the hurt your easy tears can scald him with” this implied the reader that as the father hits the little boy, he can feels how the little boy is hurt about what his father has done to him. Also other implied in the poem is in line 16, “Nor guess the wavering hidden behind that mask” this implied us that the little boy can not guess what is inside the father’s body which is implied with the word “mask”. Moreover, the last implied that I can found is in line 20, “You must not make a plaything of the rain” this implied us that the father is teaching the little boy how to be an honest, responsible person.

The style in this poem is that there is not any rhyme; it has a constant rhythm in every stanza. There is an alliteration in line 9, “empty of feeling, a colossal cruel”, this reflects us how it is comparing the nature with the father because of the attitude that he is giving towards the child and reflects as that the “cruel” is the father. The whole stanza 2, is an hyperbole “The ogre towers above you, that grim giant,” “Empty of feeling, a colossal cruel”, “Soon victim of the tale’s conclusion, dead”, “At last, You hate him, you imagine” “Chopping clean the tree he’s scrambling down” “Or plotting deeper pits to trap him in”, which represent us how the author exaggerate with the attitude of the man towards the little boy and how he teaches him for anything in his life. In line 6 “You stand there angling for a moment’s hint”, with this metaphor it presents us how the main characters of the poem is in a lake fishing and talking about things. In line 15, there is a metaphor “The hurt your easy tears can scald him with,” this reflects us how the father is admitting what he has done to the little boy and feeling criminal with the hitting towards the boy. There is another metaphor in the last line “you must not make a plaything of the rain”, this represents us that the father and the little boy is making jokes with their crying and also reflects us that the little boy is having a lesson of the story. The mood of the poem begins very calm and restful, but then it become very sad, disappointed, angry and stressful. On the other hand, the style of the poem is that the poem begins with a brief description of the little boy and in stanza 2 and 3, it describe how the father treated the little boy.

This poem can be link to the poem “Rising Five” because this poem talks about a theme of “a child life been treated badly” which means that the life of a child is been treated badly by the father, teachers or leaders from where they work or study. On the other hand, it reflects how the children are been treated, especially when they are little boys of 3 years old and how his life is converted after punishments from parents, teachers and other people.

In conclusion, I think that this poem is a very successful poem because when the poet was writing the poem was picturing or imagine how the fathers treated the little boy because of the attitude of the boy towards the father and how the father is angry about it. I feel that this poem is a very interesting, serious and sad poem because it talks about the life of a little boy been treated badly and not having any love by his parents and other people. This poem is a very depressing because it has an exact point of everything but it does not have any point which talks about the feelings of the parents towards the little boy when he cries or does anything else, so that this implied to the reader that there are not any love and conversation between parents and children (son).