Even If You Aren T My Father Summary

Camilo Sbarbaro poem “Even if you weren’t my Father” is an emotional poem: the speaker talks about his or her father throughout the poem. The main theme is how the speaker shows gratitude towards their dad. It demonstrates how the speaker has a deep appreciation for his or her father.
“Even if you weren’t my father” the speaker says “I would still love you”. This shows the fondness between the speaker and the father. Love has multiple meanings for the speaker; the love towards his/her dad makes the reader think he is such an incredible man. The speaker is sure that dad is such a great guy he or she would love him even if we were mere strangers.
The most enticing part of the poem is when the father is about to scold his daughter for a mistake
she has done, but after her look of terror in her eyes, his heart is instantly melted and he forgave her. When I was little I was such a troublemaker, at one time I flooded the house with my little sister and I saw my dad’s expression and I knew I would get scolding, so I ran scared and said “Daddy sorry please forgive me”, although I knew he could never stays long at getting mad at me, that’s something I am grateful for that he is such a kindhearted daddy. The narrator acknowledges the fact that although he got mad he instantly forgave her unlike some Dads. The simple fact makes the speaker love his or her dad unconditionally. Everything the speaker says is just another truth about the father. There’s always a twist to the stories or anything, it shows the time the father became for a brute one moment that he is not that loveable; here the main argument reinforces that no fathers are perfect everyone has some faults that was what makes us human beings. What the speaker loves about their father is that he is a faulty, spineless man who’s sometimes a bit ditzy when it comes to stuff, but that’s just his gullible qualities that makes the speaker love his or her dad.
The speakers use of punctuation makes the audience feel the intimacy between the father and son/daughter. Frequent use of period allows the speaker to make claims about what happened here. Without periods there is a loss of tone towards how she or he describes about their dad.
“Even if you weren’t my Father” shows the reader close ties between a father and child, allows the readers to come to an understanding had they been strangers they would have still loved each other. The speaker proclaims to us about loving his or her father for the man he is and not just being related by blood, and makes us reminisce about the time we shared with our father. The speaker allows us to forget the bad, but remember the love and care our father brings us.