Snowbanks North of the House

This poem makes me feel sadness and sympathy to the father, because his son never kept in contact with him, and his wife will not love him anymore. One line that made me have such sorrow was the line, with " the son stops calling home." I feel sadness because of how the son and father are so close one minute and the next the son will not call him anymore. It probly makes the father so sad, because I know if I do not call my dad when I am sleeping over a house, he misses me.

Another line that makes me feel sadness and sympathy for the father was, "And the wife looks at her husband at a party and loves him no more." The reason why is because the father is going through a rough time getting over how his son is not talking to him, and now he is going to find out that his other love of his life, his wife cannot love him anymore. This poem has many sorrow's, and I can relate to in a way, not from the father's view on things, but on my view of losing someone dear to me.

I can relate to this poem, because I lost my grandpa, and we were very close. The only thing different is that the son went to college, and my grandfather past away, so I could never call him or talk to him again. That is why this poem touched me more, because it made me think of my grandpa, and how I could feel the father's pain in a similar way. It makes you stronger, eventhough they are worst things that happen to you.