POEM PRESENTATION

BEL 472 (Language Apretiation)Dr. Nalini a/p Arumugam

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SUHAIMI BIN OMAR2009271876

A boy and his dad on a fishing – tripThere is a glorious fellowship!Father and son and the open skyAnd the white clouds lazily drifting byAnd the laughing stream as it runs alongWith the clicking reel like a martial songAnd the father teaching the youngster gayHow to land a fish in the sportsman’s way

A Boy And His DadEdgar A. Guest (from When Day Is Done, 1921)

I fancy I hear them talking thereIn an open boat, and the speech is fair;And the boy is learning the ways of menFrom the finest man in his youthful ken.Kings, to the youngster, cannot compareWith the gentle father who’s with him thereAnd the greatest mind of the human raceNot for one minute could take his place

Which is happier, man or boy?The soul of father is steeped in joyFor he’s finding out, to his heart delightThat his son is fit for the future fightHe is learning the glorious depths of himAnd the thoughts he thinks and his every

whimAnd he shall discover, when nights comes onHow close he was grown to his little son

A boy and his dad on a fishing – tripOh, I envy them, as i see them thereUnder the sky in the open airFor out of the old, old long – agoCome the summer days that I used to knowWhen I learned life’s truths from my father’s lipsAs I shared the joy of his fishing – trips Builders of life’s companionship

On August20, 1881, Edgar Guest was born in Birmingham, England, to Edwin

and Julia Wayne Guest. The family settled in Detroit, Michigan in 1891. When

Edwin lost his job in 1893, eleven-year-old Edgar between working odd jobs

after school. In 1895 he was hired as a copy boy for the Detroit Free Press,

where he would work for almost sixty-five years. His father died when the poet

was seventeen, and Guest was forced to drop out of high school and work full

time at the newspaper. He worked his way up from a copy boy to a job in the

news department. His first poem appeared on December 11, 1898. His weekly

column, “Chaff,” first appeared in 1904; his topical verses eventually became

the daily “Breakfast Table Chat” which was syndicated to over three – hundred

newspaper throughout the United States.

Background of Edgar Guest

Guest married Nellie Crossman in 1906. The couple had three children. His

brother Harry printed his first two books, Home Rhymes and Just Glad Things, in

small editions. His verse quickly found an audience and the Chicago firm of Reilly

and Britton began to publish his books at a rate of nearly one per year. His

collections include Just Folks (1917), Over Here (1918), When Day Is Done (1921),

The Passing Throng (1923), Harbor Lights of Home (1928), and Today and

Tomorrow (1942)

From 1931 to 1942, Guest broadcast a weekly program on NBC radio. In 1951, “A

Guest in Your Home” appeared on NBC TV. He published more than twenty

volumes of poetry and was thought to have written over 11,000 poems. Guest

has been called “the poet of people.” Most often, his poems were fourteen lines

long and presented deeply sentimental view of everyday life. He considered

himself “a newspaper man who wrote verses. “Of his poem he said, “I take simple

everyday things that happen to me and i figure it happens to a lot of other people

and I make simple rhymes out of them.” His Collected Verse appeared in 1934

and went into at least eleven editions. Edgar Guest died on August 5, 1959.

The poem tell us how a father teach his son to live a life in a good and better way. The father is a role model to his son and in his son’s eyes no one is more perfect than his father. Father will become the happiest man in his life when his son become a man as he wish him to be.It tell us how the time spend during the fishing trip influenced his life.

Summary

As a role model in our son life, a father must always provide good example and give good advice to our children to follow.

We must have a quality time to be spend with our children

We will be the most happiest person in the world should our children become as we wished

Message

Family oriented – Focus on relationship between father and son.

In another word ‘love’

Themes

First Stanza

It stated how a father teach his son how to fish. It reflects in the actual life how a father teach his son how to be a good knowledge man in his son life.

Second stanza

It stated how a son highly look upon his father advise and as his most respect to his father, he will follow his father advise and no one is above his father, not even the king

Third Stanza

it stated that the father will become a happiest man in the world when his son become as he wished

Forth Stanza

The poet realized that his father has done the same thing to him during his child life that make him become who he is

Personification – Laughing stream ( using human action on object, in reality a stream cannot laugh, it is a human nature )

Onomatopoeia – clicking reel (use of words to imitate the sound of things)

Pathetic Fallacy – Stanza 1, paragraph 1 to 4 ( mood of the character reflected in the atmosphere )

Amplification – Stanza 2, paragraph 5 to 8 ( showing how the son thought highly of his father as even the King cannot be compared to his father )

Figurative Language

Every stanza has a 2 paragraph that include simple rhymes

Rhyme

Tone The poet using the fishing trip as a symbolic

meaning or significance of a relationship between child and father

The tone of the poet was in calm, loving and tender.

We feels emotional that how great our father is, how we miss them when they are no longer with us.

Warmth and happy as we remembered the time that our father spend with us

Poet revealed his feeling of sadness thinking about his father who have died as he do missed of spending his time with his father.

Moods