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My grandpa is a mountain, Brooding, looming, tall. I stand in his shadow, silent as a stone. Rattling rusty paint cans, He gestures toward the shed. I gape. That sheds a squat grey mushroom, Needing more that paint to fix
Question:
a, In the first stanza, what is one key detail about grandpa and one key detail about the speaker?
b, What clues do these details give you about the speaker’s thoughts or feelings?
c, Use the details to find the author’s message, or theme. What is the theme of the poem?
Relevant knowledge
A Theme can be described as the meaning or lesson that the reader discovers through watching the story. Sometimes, a story contains specific messages called an moral. Morals are a kind of message that gives the reader lessons in life like the right and wrong way to behave or how to make a decision or how to deal with others.
a. It is evident from the analogy to an mountain that the grandpa’s height is always”looming” (hovering) above the speaker. It is evident that the speaker doesn’t communicate with his grandpa since the speaker can be described as “silent as a stone”.
b. These particulars show that the speaker is enthralled by his grandpa. He looks at him in the same way stones would be looking up at a mountain. This indicates that he hopes that in the future to be just like his grandpa.
c. The theme of the poem is portrayed through the way in which the poet examines his grandpa as well as the shed. The shed requires more than paint due to it being too old, which is connected to his grandpa, and the theme of getting older.