It is brilliant the way he thinks that by, the death of his son he will never suffer, that death is inevitable to a human being. The ending is the very powerful, by the fact that he has said that next time he will promise and make sure that he will be careful about who he loves. Also it shows the father will only love the son as an obligation, but not like him, not to suffer again.
The structure of the poem is organized four stanzas and for every stanza there is rhyming of AABB. A very poetic language has been used, similar to Shakespeare’s time.
The poem Refugee Mother and Child written by Chinua Achebe, describes the life of refugees. It shows the love and devotion of a mother to her child even on the worst circumstances, where the child has diseases, malnutrition and diarrhoea. It shows how a mother suffers with the loss of a son and, in this case, not being able to do anything and showing how the life of a woman can change due to things happening to her child. He is showing that extremely bad conditions the refugees had to live in. The poem is a verdict, as it really happened to Chinua or he was present at a similar situation.
The poem is divided into two stanzas. They are all composed of free verses, fruitful enjambements. Despite it being written in free verses, the poem still has very poetic language, due to some poetic styles such as: pathos, metaphors and enjambements. The enjambements help the readers to go through the poem without stopping as if it was a story, but in the structure of a poem.
The striking line of the poem for me is the last one. It compares her life to a normal life “another life” and the act of putting flowers next to his grave was as normal as having should be young and slim as to fit on a “tiny grave”.
We can clearly see that both poems symbolize death at early ages and so both poems begin with sadness. Also both poems show how devoted and careful a parent is to his child, doing whatever it takes to have him alive. In addition, both poems show the suffering of a parent who looses his child, it like his life has ended and there is no coming back. Both poems consist of the same base “the loss of a child” and it was really well done. The only difference was the way they died.