Questions How do the poets in two poems that you have studied powerfully illustrate for you the relationship between parent and child? Response Poets often use various types of literary techniques to evoke different types of emotions. In the poems "The Toys  by Coventry Patmore and "Little boy Crying" by Mervyn Morris they cause the reader to feel sadness and sympathy for the little boys in the poems. In the poem "The toys Patmore depicts the sad, brooding little boy "with darken'd eyelids their lashes yet / from his late sobbing wet." The boy has been crying because his father has recently spanked him for being disobedient. Moreover, the mother is dead, so there was no one in the house to console the child after his father's severe admonishment. Thus, the father  finds his son asleep with eyes and face still stained from recent tears. The sharpest pathos in the poem arises when the father looks at a table near the boy's bed, upon which a variety of commonplace objects that the boy has "ranged there with careful art. The emotion emanates not from the toys themselves, but from the fact that the boy has sweetly bestowed importance upon objects that adults otherwise ignore. Indeed, so great is the father's pain at the recognition of his young son's sweet childishness that he immediately after prays to God, not as much to ask for anything as to observe that God, the ultimate father, will one day look upon His children and overlook "their childishness," the father's swift and severe response to his son's disobedience. God, the father believes, will do for the human race what he could not for his son. Thus, the most remarkable aspect of this poem is not any profound notion, but rather the simple and yet sublime emotions attached with this paternal sentiment. In the poem "Little Boy Crying" Morris quickly implants the image of a little boy crying in the title, so literally the first thing you think about is a little boy cry