Eamon Grennan uses his poem "Station" to describe the pain that one goes through when they must separate from something very dear to them. Because of all the emotions and feelings being projected from the poem, it can be classified as a lyric. The man in the poem is "saying goodbye / on the [station] platform" (lines 1, 2) to his son. He explains his situation and describes what is happening and how he feels about it. "I want to tell him he's entering into the light / of the world, but it feels like a long tunnel" (lines 11, 12). The man's son is leaving him and his home to delve into a new world, or how the father describes it, "next life" (line 27). The author metaphorically describes the journey as entering a light with a long tunnel. This is why the writer decided to place the setting of the poem at a train station, because trains travel through long tunnels. The reason as to why the boy is leaving is because he is becoming a grown man and wants to live with his mother. "I can feel mine [cheeks] scratchy with beard and stubble, his / not quite smooth as a girls, harder, a faint fuzz / starting" (lines 24-26). The boy is starting to grow a beard which is an indication of growing up. The quotes, "one parent / for another" (lines 13, 14) and, "going home / to his mother's house" (lines 43, 44) show that the boy is going to his mothers house. The man describes the situation they are both in as being in angst as he can't describe how he feels about the boy and the time they spent together. "Mine / aching in vain for the words / to make sense of our life together" (lines 28-30). The main point the writer is trying to allude are the emotions that the two people in the poem feel from the situation they are in.
