Query: 'My Father Began As A God'

[akwal]

Hi,

I need help figuring out the last stanza of Ian Mudie's 'My Father Began As A God' poem, especially with regard to how the narrator sees the meaning of life, and his current view of his father.

"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."

Thanks very much.

[bazarov]

Hi and welcome! I think that writer started to respect his father more and more with every cm of coffin deeper in the grave, realizing what a great man his father was. I think he didn't agree with his father in life, his realizing of good father came liitle too late. He also thinks that he should try to be a better man, just like his father, so that one day, somebody can also think same what he feels right now, insead of being some ordinary man, there's already enough of them.

[akwal]

Hi Bazarov! Thank you very much for your explanation. I do understand it better now.

[lalala]

To me every poems have different meanings
"My Father Began As A God" refers to us that as we are getting older that is metaphorically and literally. i also think that, correct me if i'm wrong that when we are young we think that our parents are like god they're the best but as we get older we now think differently and independtly because we are developing into mature people so therefore, we have different views on our parents. But when parents die, you've realised that that they are like god protecting us and providing our needs and probably our wants.