I don’t want to say this is true, but I think he might have not understood that his father was dead.
Topic or Theme? The Theme of the poem is the relationship between light and darkness.
An initiating event is a literary term which refers to the first stimuli in a novel or story that triggers the conflict in the plot of a story line
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You didn't tell us what was underlined.
IF the word BLUE was underlined---the context is the person felt sad because they failed.
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