Biography owen sheers coming home
Owen sheers poems.
Coming Home
Owen Sheers
“Coming Home” is not a warm welcome but a cold start to a regular relationship. Owen Sheers writes about a man who left home a “child” and has returned a “man”.
Biography owen sheers coming home
His mother let go of a “child” and wants this baby to comeback. At the arrival of a “man” her “hug” is “awkward”. The discomfort of the mom and the son is equally felt. The son can empathize with his mom wanting the child back.
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Owen tricks the reader from “open arms” almost waiting to hug the son yet there is a twist to realize that son is all grown up now and is a “man”. The words “this body of a man” create the image of a son who is a stranger in front of the mother.
“Open arms” being reserved for a “child” and not “this” person uses enjambment beautifully to show that the return of this adult instead of a child is not what the mother exp