"I see myself on deck, convinced his ship's gone down."
This is a quote from the poem "Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead" by Andrew Hudgins. This poem has an overall tone of pessimistic annoyance. The poem is pessimistic because the speaker is envisioning the worst. He thinks that when his father dies, he is gone forever. He even tries to negate his father who tells them they will meet again like the first time they met on this earth. The speaker is annoyed that his father is welcoming death so openly because he thinks that will be it. The speaker is not ready for this father to leave him. The poem can be regarded as an elegy because the speaker is mourning the loss of his father because he knows it is inevitable and he is losing his father. The speaker is also reflecting on both possibilities of the future. I cannot tell if he is hoping for one way or the other, but he sure seems convinced that he is right and his father is about to be gone forever.
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