Blogging isn't as bad as i thought!

So this is my second blog! I wasn't too excited when our english teacher told us that we would be graded based on our blog enteries, mainly because im not exactly good with computer and figuring out how to use all their programs,I couldn't even make my own facebook account how sad is that. It turns out that blogging isn't as stressful as I thought it would be! I wasn't lying in my first blog when I mentioned that the poems we discuss in class are for the most part all about death. "My Son my Executioner" also shares the ever so popular theme of death but in a more unique way. This peom really made me think differently about life and death in a way this peom was kind of depressing. The poem is about a father who sees his new born baby for the fist time, most people would think that this would be the happiest and most precious moment in a parents life! You probably wouldn't think a parents first reference to their new born would be "instrument of immortality"! Even the title referse to this baby boy as an "executioner". Clearly whe can't take these statments literaly, i mean a new born baby cannot be an intrument of imortality, nor can it execute people. This is what i ment by this poem makes you think, instead of taking poem literaly you have to think about the abstract meaning. For example this poem isnt about a killer baby its about the circle of life. When one is born, another dies. Everyday as this baby growns bigger and older the father is pushed closer and closer towards old age and death. Although the thought of new life would ignite feelings of excitment the over all tone of this poem is "sad", most likely because the poem is being written from the point of view of the father.  Although this father know what is to come, he still knows that apart of him will always live on in his son.... and the circle of life strikes again just like the movie "The Lion King' !!