What is so heroic about this poem? (1 Viewer)

Winston

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Hey guys i most probably or maybe not be tested on this poem tommorow
i've found some techniques
but the rest of the techniques just don't show how a hero is divluged can you find anymore??



My father began as a god
full of heroic tales
of days when he was young.
His laws were as immutable
as if brought down from Sinai,
which indee he thought they were


He fearlessly lifted me to heaven
by a mere swing to his shoulder
and made me a godling
by seating me astride
our milch-cow's back, and too
upon the great white gobbler
of which others went in constant fear

Strange then how he shrank and shrank
until by my time of adolescence
he had become a foolish small old man
with silly and outmoded views
of life and morality

Stranger still
that as i became older
his faults and his intolerences
scaled away into the past,
revealing virtues
such as honesty, generosity, integrity

Strangest of all
how the deeper he recedes into the grave
the more i see myself
as just one more of all the little men
who creep through life
not knee-high to this long-dead god.
 

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