Death of a Young Son by Drowning

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Grief in the Poem “Death of a Young Son by Drowning.”
The poem “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” written by Margret Atwood embodies a narrative literary work that talks about the demise of a young son and how the mother feels. The speaker in the poem is the mother of the deceased son. With the loss of the son and the mother providing the details of the death, the audience is presented with a unique point view on the loss of a loved one. The narration as given by the mother shows that she feels guilty for the loss. Nonetheless, the relator endeavors to make the reader sympathize with her situation through the use of metaphors and imagery.
The use of metaphor aids the reader to connect directly with the accident and the mother’s grief. In the opening of the poem, the writer stunningly employs a metaphor for the birth of the son that consequently introduces the reader to the drowning incident. The first stanza poem goes “He, who navigated with success/the dangerous river of his birth/once more set forth/on a voyage of discovery/into the land I floated on/but could not touch to claim” (Atwood, Stanza 1). In this excerpt, the writer implies that the son overcame the risks associated with being born and set forth to discover his life only for his aspirations not to materialize.
Besides the use of metaphor, the narrator’s use of imagery to pass the message of grief to the reader. In stanza eight, the Atwood writes…