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Identify the phrases and lines that indicate distance between father and son.

Lines and phrases that show distance:

- “land is his and none of mine”


- “Him prodigal, returning to his father’s house”


- “see him make and move his world”


- “put out an empty hand”


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Notice this construction: Tsetan was eager to have them fixed. Write five sentences with a similar structure.

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Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal?

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How is the father’s helplessness brought out in the poem?

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Does the poem have a consistent rhyme scheme?