By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
Previously, we’ve offered five of the best poems for daughters, so now it’s the turn of the male offspring. Below are five of the finest poems about sons – ranging from the humorous to the moving, the personal to the universal.
Many famous poets have also been mothers or fathers to sons, and sometimes they have written about their children in poems that have become classics in English literature. Sometimes they write about the idea of ‘sons’ in a more abstract or general sense (see Kipling’s poem below). But they’re all worth reading – here they are.