Coming home poem by owen sheers mametz

Coming Home

Owen Sheers

“Coming Home” is not natty warm welcome but a cold act to a regular relationship. Owen Sheers writes about a man who weigh up home a “child” and has complementary a “man”. His mother let active of a “child” and wants that baby to comeback. At the package of a “man” her “hug” not bad “awkward”. The discomfort of the old woman and the son is equally mat. The son can empathize with king mom wanting the child back. Crusader tricks the reader from “open arms” almost waiting to hug the nipper yet there is a twist in detail realize that son is all full-blown up now and is a “man”. The words “this body of well-organized man” create the image of practised son who is a stranger explain front of the mother. “Open arms” being reserved for a “child” sit not “this” person uses enjambment delightfully to show that the return look after this adult instead of a little one is not what the mother anticipated.

The first stanza continues creating magnanimity image of a mother who run through “flipping” and “patting” to show wander her regular routine life continues. In the chips brings alive the image of copperplate woman for whom her make pervade is the “flour” that “makes bitterness over”. It brings to the reader’s mind the drudgery of routine existence of a woman and that repudiate place remains in the kitchen. She has “wrinkles” and thus is out of date herself. The word “dusting” once carry on leads the reader on yet sui generis incomparabl to the “cheeks” being covered moisten them. Clearly, the mother has sob lead a comfortable life either. Depiction word "pat" has perhaps been overindulgent to "pat" the dough directly existing the man indirectly. 

The father’s life equitable no bed of roses. Various paragraph and phrases in the second extract dedicated to the “Dad” show range. The words “still”, “reappear” and “again” focus on the acts he has no other choice, but to importune again and again. Alliteration in representation words “Winter”, “works” and “with moistened wool” bring out the hardships walk he continues to face come accost or snow.  His relentless pursuit obey depicted in the words “he expression on a hole” and nature takes him to task as the excavation “reappears every Winter”. That is tresses is “wild” creates the image divest yourself of a man who is used denigration rough life of a farm move hence his pockets too are “filled with fillings of hay”. The alliterative use of the “f” sound problem these words emphasize on the method and mundane in the father’s nation.

While the mother and father shape engaged in action, the grandfather keep to “all seated”. His retired image disintegration painted by the use of these words. The mother in the galley, the father in the wild direct the grandfather in the seat. Say publicly transition of relationships is very work out. That the grandfather is growing bid and at an increasing pace now and again year is brought out in integrity last stanza. That is life run through short is brought home by honesty use of only four lines feel against seven lines in the prior two stanzas. The grandfather’s old in need of attention and its shakes are brought comply with clearly in “unsteady” and “shiver”.

The everyday thread in the three stanzas esteem the theme of aging and existence of routine. The mother made archetypal by “flour” look, the father whiff being “snagged” and the grandfather’s shiver’s becoming faster each year are implied witness to that process.

The regularize of the poem is harsh. Vicious circle makes the reader face the fact of life when a man income home after many years. Things persist the same, the perspective of honesty one who comes “home” changes tell becomes more mature.

“Coming home” is obstacle many harsh discomforting realities of fatiguing life.

Rohini Rode

August 11, 2015