05-23-2025, 01:18 AM
Hey Ryan, here are my thoughts. Initially the title puts expectations of father - son dynamics into my head from the perspective of the son.
1 - who is you pops into my head.
2 - I initially read that as wheezing to indicate that the father may be sick along with the weak word, but whizzing indicates speed and something going by fast.
3 - so maybe the father is sick in bed and the son is supporting from bedside?
4 - imagining seems to me like thinking with idealism in mind/wistful thinking/optimism
5/6 - the son will take on the father's pain to relieve him of the agony
7 - caught off guard
8 - the father will be freed from the pain
I believe this poem is about the son struggling with seeing his father struggling and in pain from some illness and wanting to relieve him of the pain. I'm not sure if in line 2 "whizzing" is supposed to be "wheezing".
thanks,
Harry
1 - who is you pops into my head.
2 - I initially read that as wheezing to indicate that the father may be sick along with the weak word, but whizzing indicates speed and something going by fast.
3 - so maybe the father is sick in bed and the son is supporting from bedside?
4 - imagining seems to me like thinking with idealism in mind/wistful thinking/optimism
5/6 - the son will take on the father's pain to relieve him of the agony
7 - caught off guard
8 - the father will be freed from the pain
I believe this poem is about the son struggling with seeing his father struggling and in pain from some illness and wanting to relieve him of the pain. I'm not sure if in line 2 "whizzing" is supposed to be "wheezing".
thanks,
Harry