A Childs Grave, Hale County Alabama

A Childs Grave, Hale County Alabama Childs Grave, Hale County Alabama struck me with excellent imagery. The poesy has an outstanding characterisation of exactly how difficult times were during the Depression. At first glance this poem could simply be about a opus burying his child. still I believe it is untold more than that, also a descriptive depiction of average families struggles during this historical rough spot for this country. It is easy for redbrick Americans to take for granted all of the advantages we have.Taking for granted what our predecessors had to endorse for us to have these daily benefits. In this poem a man carries his deceased child to give him a respectful burial. In 1936, unless after the depression, times were tough for all American families. The land was set forth as so hard that even in less difficult years the unforgiving land would snap the head off a shovel. He had to steal a post from his landlords farm and carried it on with his child three m iles from home to burry his tidings.This particular night he snuck away from his wife in the dead of night. All of this effort and mouse could possibly suggest the father may have killed his son. Perhaps he knew he would not be able to feed another talk and wished to take his son out of his misery. The father could have thought this natural action was justifiable knowing first hand the hardships this child would have to lam and it was too much to bear for this father to bear.When he gets to the gravesite he launch area painstakingly to five feet down into this baron tough ground to let only one foot of the post show above ground. In the poem the post was described as a half-cross this could symbolize his native struggle between right and wrong, good and evil. In his mind, killing his son out of protection from this cruel world was a necessary evil. The come of effort that the father dumbfound into this burial showed that he cared very much for his son.The father leaves off the engravings on the post to mark the childs grave. This could possibly be because he was illiterate, which was common for this era. He could have mat the plain post suited his son better, representing his plain family and average struggles. This was a post a personal memorial to his son, he didnt put it there for public viewing. The father obviously loved his son and tangle enormous grief he could not congruously raise him. yet at the very least, this man would give his son a proper burial.