Grandfathers Dreams Poem Analysis

Grandfathers Dreams
Write a paragraph explaining why the poem is called Grandfathers Dreams. Is this an appropriate title?
This poem is called Grandfathers Dreams because the poem talks about how the grandfather was a really good artist and how he took care of his farm and when his grandchildren came to Canada they used his art skills to become what they are now. This is an appropriate title because the whole poem was talking about the grandfather and how his skills were carried on to his grandchildren.

Identify two themes from the poem and show how they are presented in the poem as a whole.
One theme for this poem is migration because this whole poem talked about how they went from their home country to another country to have a better life and what happen in-between (how they suffered). Another theme would be hope because when grandfather’s children came to Canada they suffered a lot but they still had hoped that they would have a good life in the future, and in the end the grandchildren became artists and got other good jobs around the world.

How effective are they?
One symbol that was used in the poem was the clouds.” His vision held somewhere in the heavens were like clouds”. This was describing how he was looking up in the sky’s to see if there were any rain clouds. Another one is blooded , “ hands now blooded in the factories making”, this was describing how when grandfathers children came to Canada they started out really poor that they spent their lives working in factories just to survive here. These two symbols were really effective because they described a lot about the situation they were