This is another poem that refers to alcohol. A son is remembering his father through a photograph. What the son remembers is his dad away most of the time fishing and drinking beer. I study my father's embarrassed young man's face ( 2 ). The father must of been embarrassed of his drinking problem, and that is probably what killed him. It seems the son could of been an alcoholic, but realizes he can not hold his liquor, so he chooses not to drink.
And don't even know the places to fish ( 15 ) suggest one of two things. Either the father never took the son fishing, that why he does not know of any places, or that because he is not a alcoholic and spends all day drinking and fishing, therefore he doesn't know of any places. No matter what problems the father had, the son still loved him.
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The son could also choose not to drink because he doesnt want to go down that same road his dad did. I agree with what you got from this poem. Also with the fishing, his dad might not have took him fishing with him. That might be why he doesnt know where the fishing sites are.
Jenny
Yes, I would agree that this poem had much to do with the fathers alcoholism. The line that makes the comment about the fathers embarrassed face also tells me that either the father was embarrassed of the fact that he was a full blown alcoholic or the fact that all he could catch was perch.(To me, perch are nothing to brag about and a picture would be funny to take due to the fact that there is no reason to brag about it.)I do think that the son also has inherited alcoholism. He is open about it and that seems to tell me that he is probably in recovery. His remark of not knowing where to fish also tells me that the father probably did not spend much time with his son teaching him the types of things that a typical father would. Perhaps the alcohol was more important.
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