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Analysis Of Rather Than Going Like Tightrope Walker
From the title of the poem we know that the speaker has a son. and he is walkingat night with him. In the first stanza the speaker's son has grown in the summer and became the same height as the speaker.they're side by side walking through the fields reminicing their past then trying to know what the future hold for them. The speaker says "rather than going like tightrope walkers on a beam of light from one hand to the earth," he uses a simile to compare what they know about the field to the tightrope
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