A Childs Grave, Hale County Alabama

A Childs Grave, Hale County Alabama Childs Grave, Hale County Alabama laid low(p) me with excellent imagery. The poem has an proscribedstanding portrayal of exactly how difficult time were during the Depression. At archetypal glance this poem could simply be intimately a spell burying his child. But I believe it is ofttimes more than that, also a descriptive depiction of average families struggles during this diachronic rough spot for this country. It is easy for modern Americans to come across for granted all of the advantages we have.Taking for granted what our predecessors had to endure for us to have these casual benefits. In this poem a man carries his deceased child to separate him a respectful burial. In 1936, just after the depression, times were strong for all American families. The cut knock down was describe as so dangerous 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 a nd carried it along with his child three miles from habitation to burry his son.This particular night he snuck away from his wife in the dead of night. All of this effort and sneaking could possibly suggest the pose may have killed his son. Perhaps he knew he would not be able to feed another mouth and wished to take his son out of his misery. The stupefy could have thought this action was justifiable knowing first hand the hardships this child would have to endure and it was too much to wear off for this father to bear.When he gets to the gravesite he digs painstakingly to five feet down into this baron tough ground to let only one keister of the post show above ground. In the poem the post was described as a half-cross this could symbolize his internal struggle between ripe and wrong, good and evil. In his mind, killing his son out of protection from this fell world was a necessary evil. The amount of effort that the father go under into this burial showed that he cared ve ry 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 felt the plain post suited his son better, representing his plain family and average struggles. This was a post a ain memorial to his son, he didnt put it there for public viewing. The father obviously loved his son and felt enormous grief he could not properly raise him. But at the very least, this man would give his son a proper burial.