Comparing Essay
“The Stolen Child” by William Butler Yeats and “Cat's in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin both explore the concept of loss of childhood innocence. Yeats’ poem explain the story of a feary tempting a child to escape the “weeping” of his human world while chapines song recount the experience of the distant relationship between a father and son. Both work share moments in life of a child that is important to not miss out on family moment.
Both pieces conduct an explanation that explore a bad situation in a childhood. With the different than one can escape and the other is going to deal with his childhood. Yeats states, “come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.” Yeats exclaim that this world is full of harsh and crude things that the child only escape is by a fairy. Meanwhile Chapin is stating that not spending time with his son, his son losses the experience of being raise by his father. ‘‘I'd love to dad if I could find the time you see my new job a hassle and the kids have the flu, But it's sure nice talking to you dad.’’This indicates both work have different perspective of a child childhood. In Chapin song he …show more content…
Yeats states a fairy that can help the child escape from world full of weeping. Meanwhile Harry shows that a child growing up without the presence of a role model father. In the song Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin he speaks on how he as a father miss the precious moment of his son childhood by being too busy and unavailable. By the time that the father wants to spend time with his son it is already too late because his son is all grown up and with responsibilities of his own. Towards the end of the song it seems to shows how the son does turns out like his father by not having time to be with his father now, and the father realizes that his son did grow up like him by not having time for his dad
“The Stolen Child” by William Butler Yeats and “Cat's in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin both explore the concept of loss of childhood innocence. Yeats’ poem explain the story of a feary tempting a child to escape the “weeping” of his human world while chapines song recount the experience of the distant relationship between a father and son. Both work share moments in life of a child that is important to not miss out on family moment.
Both pieces conduct an explanation that explore a bad situation in a childhood. With the different than one can escape and the other is going to deal with his childhood. Yeats states, “come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.” Yeats exclaim that this world is full of harsh and crude things that the child only escape is by a fairy. Meanwhile Chapin is stating that not spending time with his son, his son losses the experience of being raise by his father. ‘‘I'd love to dad if I could find the time you see my new job a hassle and the kids have the flu, But it's sure nice talking to you dad.’’This indicates both work have different perspective of a child childhood. In Chapin song he …show more content…
Yeats states a fairy that can help the child escape from world full of weeping. Meanwhile Harry shows that a child growing up without the presence of a role model father. In the song Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin he speaks on how he as a father miss the precious moment of his son childhood by being too busy and unavailable. By the time that the father wants to spend time with his son it is already too late because his son is all grown up and with responsibilities of his own. Towards the end of the song it seems to shows how the son does turns out like his father by not having time to be with his father now, and the father realizes that his son did grow up like him by not having time for his dad