A Wholesome Gratitude Comments

This poem made me think a lot about my own father, also my grandfather. It helped me to appreciate them more which is a great value to receive from any poem. There is real feeling about the father expressed in this poem and overall, the feeling that while a mother may often receive credit for the good in her children, sometimes the father is standing in the shadows. I liked this poem for those reasons. And the feeling of the teasing among the friends about the strictness of the Dad added a flash of something, a color of something interesting and living to the poem.