Many write to express feelings and emotions as poetry allows this in the simplest of words. Poets have many purposes for writing a poem. He then cries not because of sadness but because of the layer of shame for his pride in the attention gained. It is then in the second paragraph that he reveals the guilt he feels for the pride he felt from his father’s death. He realises that with his father dead, there is the advantage that the bullies will leave alone him. He is confused and knows that he should be devastated because his father has passed but he can’t help but view the situation as a glass half full. At the news of his father dead, the boy cries. However, re-reading the poem gives you the understanding that the poem is actually about the boy’s innocence being stolen from him in his shame for attention. Just reading this poem once will make you think that the poem is simply about the grief of a boy losing his father. The reason I enjoy Edward Lucie Smith’s poem ‘ The Lesson’ is because the more you read it, the more you understand. Pride, like a goldfish, flashed a sudden fin. In school-assembly when my grief came in.Īround their shining prison on its shelf.
I still remember how the noise was stilled
I was a month past ten when I learnt this: For there and then I knewĬould bind the bully’s fist a week or two Īnd then I cried for shame, then for relief. “Your father’s gone,” my bald headmaster said.
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