Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead

The speaker in this poem is a son speaking about his father being ready to die, excited even. And yet one can see the unhappiness over the speaker's father being ready to let go. The speaker alludes that if his father were to die he would be ready and see it as an adventure. But the speaker would not. I feel as though this poem shows the different view points about death from someone older and wiser to someone younger and maybe even more naive. For the father is ready because he has seen all he wants to see and now is ready to visit "fresh worlds". But the speakers says "I can't just say good-bye as cheerfully as if here were embarking on a trip". He talks that letting go of his dad is not as easy for him as his dad thinks. His dad may be ready but the son is not ready to see his dad go.