In the poems Father William by Lewis Carrol, and Jim by Gwendolyn Brooks compares both those who are old, and those who are young. In both poems it about a child and their parent, and how the two different families are bonded as well.
In Father William, it is about a boy and his father. The son is asking his father on why and how he does so many things at the old age of his. The father uses excuses from when he was young on how he was able to do them now, such as “I took to the law, and argued each case with my wife; and the muscular strength, which gave to my jaw has lasted the rest of my life.”
In Jim, it is about a young lad named Jim, Mrs. Jackson’s boy. In the short poem, it would describe how Jim was the nicest boy around. The poem
In Father William, it is about a boy and his father. The son is asking his father on why and how he does so many things at the old age of his. The father uses excuses from when he was young on how he was able to do them now, such as “I took to the law, and argued each case with my wife; and the muscular strength, which gave to my jaw has lasted the rest of my life.”
In Jim, it is about a young lad named Jim, Mrs. Jackson’s boy. In the short poem, it would describe how Jim was the nicest boy around. The poem