Drinking With His Son

Drinking With His SonAs far as I am concerned, I would strongly recommend that we choose the poem Drinking With His Son as the cover art for the book. Well, as we all know that the readers will be attracted by some special things, which should be concise and brief. In order to explain the reasons why I choose this poem as the cover art of this book, I would love to talk about this poem first.This poem is very short in form, and at the very beginning, it goes “what ambitions does a man pass fifty still hold”, which is just like a question to make us think what it is. Then the poem goes to explain that “his dream is but to sit and drink a glass of beer, with his long-estranged grown-up son”, this well answers the question proposed at the very beginning of the poem. It tells us the biggest dream for a father who has passed his fifties is to sit down with his son, drinking and talking some daily issues. This maybe just an illustration of the father’s dream, but when we read this poem here, a special feeling comes to our minds. We can sense the deep love of the father, and his boundless care for his son. Then the poem continues to depict what the father and his son are doing, it goes like that they clink their glasses together, this is the way they hug. It is also how they are reconciled, then they say nothing.When a child grows up as an adult, it is sometimes very hard for him to express his feeling to his dear relatives, especially his closest family members. This is whatI can read from these poem lines, and the only way for this father and son to express their love for each other is to clink their glasses. There is not much talk as we all know that the love from father is usually extremely deep, which needs less words to show. “As the songets up for another glass, the father stares blankly as the foam on the rim, slips to the bottom of his glass ”, this describes what happens next when his son leaves for the next place, and the father stares at the bottle which his son just used to drink beers. This depicts the father’s reaction after his son leaves for another place, which exactly speaking, is nothing. The father does nothing after he is left alone, only glaring at the bottle. Here it is very easy for the readers to form a vivid picture that the father looks like very upset, and feels lonely and something missing. Well, even though this is a very short poem, we can still feel and sense the strong and deep love from the great father for his dear son. Thus it is obvious that there is a very positive and optimistic subject in it, and it reminds us of the traditional and everlasting human virtue--filial piety. Thus this a very perfect poem that it well illustrates human merits.What I have mentioned above is a brief description of the whole poem, beside this, I would also love to express my reasons to choose this poem as the cover art for our book. First and foremost, the optimistic subject of the poem is a very important reason for me to choose it, which is all what I have described above. In another word, I choose this poem as the cover art for the book is mainly because that it touches the deep of us, and drives the readers to think about human filial virtue and reflect their own behaviors, which is very meaningful and useful. Secondly, I choose this as the cover art of this book also because that a brief cover will be much easier to catch the readers’ eyes, and as a rule that the cover art of every kind of book is the key and heart of it, thus it is very important to choose a perfect one as its cover art. Drinking With His Son is just adjustable for this book. This poem is short and brief in context,and what is more, this poem is also closely related to human love, which is a sense of feeling that we all can feel and understand because it is the father’s love. Nowadays, many children grow up to come to other bigger cities for a better life, and they hardly have enough time to come back home to take care of their parents. And there are actually a great portion of people living like this, thus for these people, it is easy for them to produce resonation. As we all know that father's love is just like the great mountain, and we are like the flower, grass dotted in the heart of the mountain. Love from father is not only great and deep, but it is also full of truth and beauty.Father's love does not need a reason, but this is the product of a variety of reasons together. It is the thickness compiled from the dribs and drabs of life accumulation, and even though it is seemingly opposite from the surface, nothing could not hide its goodness in nature.Then, I choose this poem as the cover art as this poem is quite suitable for this book. And as we need something that can contain all the perfect points of this book as the cover art, at least, it should be an outstanding reading material which can be the spotlight of the whole book, then it is able to lead the readers to continue to go through the whole book. This poem is brief as what I have mentioned many times, and it has an intimate relation with our daily life which illustrates a feeling that we all can sense and comprehend, thus it tends to be much more simple to attract a great number of audience compared with other reading materials. Last but not the least, I choose this poem as the cover art also due to its rhyme, or to say, its poetic beauty. When we start to read this poem, it is evident for us too sense its rhythm. This poem demonstrates a very good interpretation of the beautyof rhythm from English poetry, beside this, it also embodies the great literary components. In addition, the content of poem is also easy to understand, simple in context but deep in meaning that makes the readers to think and reflect more. For poetry, its rhyme is a very important part, and this poem is well processed in this respect that the rhythm and style of the whole poem is quite perfect.All in all, just as a very old saying goes that mother's love is more like the water, while the father's love is more like the mountain. Father is just like the vast and tremendous sea, which is deep and long enough to hold us all; father is also the sun in our hearts, which illuminates our road ahead to remind us of being ourselves all the time and make us feel warm forever. And this poem well expresses all of them thus to some extent, it is the perfect choice to regard this poem as the cover art. What’s more, there are also a consequence of other factors for me to choose this poem as the cover art of this book, such as its usage of words, its description, so on and so forth. However, I just have mentioned and listed some of the most important aspects above, and as far as I am concerned, this is the perfect one to choose as the cover art, and I hope to receive more valuable and great advices from others.。