Dream Weaver

In the poem "Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead" by Andrew Hudgins, the speaker is basically expressing his father's will to die. His father knows he wil die soon and is open to it. The son has no intention of dying soon and could not be more closed to the idea of death. I think this could stem from the simple factor of age. His father knows he has lived a full life. He obviously had a child and raised that child to be a man. When someone has done everything they set out to do, they usually begin to feel like there is nothing left to do. Sometimes this is abitter feeling of worthlessness and other times, it is a satisfied feeling of surrender. The latter seems to be the case in this poem. Still, the son cannot let go of his dad because he does not see how he can be that open to death because he is still young and has dreams to fulfill. This poem is simply a case of a generation gap.