Stolen Child

In the Stolen Child the child is lured by the fairies so that the child can leave to a much better place. For example Yeats says, Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild, with a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand." Here the fairies are persuading the child to go to much better place. The fairies want this innocent child to live a better life in a better environment, they describe the world in which the child lives in as a weeping world. The fairies end up alluring the child in which at last ends up to satisfied fairies and a child being stolen from where he came from.
In the Cats in the Cradle a father is being looked up to by his son. The son wants to feel that connection with his
father. For example in the song it says, Im gonna be like you, dad you know Im be like you." The child wants to be like his father which at last results to be exactly what he said. When the father looks for his son to spend some time with him, his son is not there anymore. Overall the father taught him exactly what he showed him.