What is slow reader poem about

She just compares him to an old man — presumably someone with lots of wisdom and experience — who is being asked to do something he knows, is impossible. The speaker is obviously someone who has a close relationship with the child. The tone of piece does fluctuate, at the beginning it starts with a positive but changes to a negative tone, but the negativity is a sign of worry and concern. The poet tries to reach her son but his action makes her down; it is a such a drag on her thinking.

Listing three verbs which suggests the negative effect, she conveys to us how languid her son is in reading book. Using the simile, poet portrays image of her son like an old, thoughtful man knowing that the mountains are impassable. Facing with book her son is deactivated. Through the first stanza, mother? The contrast between what her son can do and reading puts her in tumult. Secondly, as evidence, the second stanza is an infallible description about her son?

He enjoys his freedom like the fish returns to its element. The poet exhaled using this idiom to describe her anxiety when her son became active again after hardcore reading. Here, the mother poet seems to find out the inscrutable behavior of her son that makes him fed up with reading. The image of a young male horse suggests the using of metaphor. The poet? At this point, the poet emphasizes that her son seem to be regenerated after the reading section, which pull her down when she tries her best to help her son.

The poem is written the heart of a mother who spends all her love to him, tries to help him ceaselessly while her son can? Download image of this poem. Report this poem. This poem has not been translated into any other language yet. I would like to translate this poem. See All Comments. Explore Poems GO! Slow Reader. Childhood Language Parenthood Free verse. Home Explore Poems Slow Reader. Slow Reader He can make sculptures and fabulous machines, invent games, tell jokes, give solemn, adult advice — but he is slow to read.

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