Coming home poem by owen sheers poetry
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Sheers' poem expresses the pain of the speaker on witnessing the inevitable old age of his family on his return to home.
The poem Coming Home by Owen Sheers has the main theme of togetherness and what an adverse affect a passage of time can have on people, their relationships and perspective of other people which can be seen throughout the poem as a 'man' has returned from college only to be greeted by his family that still perceives him as a young boy.
First Stanza: The first stanza is what the boy man feels about his mother and her change towards her behavior towards him and how he perceives her to be old. The first line, "My mother's hug is awkward, as if the space between her open arms is reserved for a child, not this body of a man. This particular stanza hints a tinge of nostalgia as he uses metaphorical significance of the flour remaking her and the imagery of her kneading the dough again makes him feel like things are normal again.
Second Stanza: In the second stanza, the poet is now talking about his relationship with his father. The poet is able to understand and empathize for his father as he observes that he is a man who has been slogging and working very hard every winter on something that continues breaking and yet he never gives up.
'Coming Home' by Owen Sheers is a thoughtful poem that describes the transitory nature of life.
The use of alliteration in the phrase, "pockets are filled with filings of hay. The father has a fruitless and monotonous life in a rural setting where hard work and labor is the only way of income. Third Stanza: It is the final conclusion to the poem as the poet now explores his relationship with his grandfather who is just as relaxed as he was even before the poet had left although in the line,"it is a tune he plays faster each year" is a line that shows that his shivering has become more prominent as he has gone unsteady with age and is at the end of his life.
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