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George Bilgere, an American Poet writes a touching but sad poem about his personal life. Bilgere who is the main character in the poem takes his readers on a journey about the survival of his splutters in life. Coming from a family with divorced parents, alcoholic father and mother who passed away lead him to be more open with his poetry. In the poem Like Riding a Bicycle Bilgere informs his readers about the struggles he had to face throughout his childhood collect to not having a mother or father figure virtually at a young age. passim the poem, Bilgere shows that even up though you struggle in life, there is alway a way to find yourself as a successful individual.Bilgere was a young boy who suffered from alcohol abuse. The first a couple of(prenominal) stanzas of the poem started off showing happiness when describing his father teaching him how to fluff a bicycle. Getting deeper into the poem, it turns to a rough point when Bilgere compares the push bit riding a bike to h is own marriage. For instance As I make some perilous adult launch / like move away from my wife. (462) Knowing that his father and mother split up when Bilgere was a young child, shows that the divorce affected his future. Bilgeres father alcohol business destroyed their family. The line On their own divorce, their balance / long asleep(p) and the hard ground already / rising up to smite them ( 462) shows the whimsey of being abandoned and left alone. His fathers alcoholism caused his actions to become violent. For instance He swore and stomped off. (462) which demonstrates to the reader that the father had trouble controlling his temper towards his son and wife. Throughout the entire poem, it shows that Bilgere had strong anger towards his father but learns to appreciate ... ...er eventide (463) gives us the thought of him remembering it all, but the pacific shoreline (463) which proves that the bicycle befool was representing a new life. Bilgere gives his readers the c onclusion to never give up even when life turns upside down. Bilgere was a young boy who survived a exhaust hood childhood and grew up to be a successful man. Even though he didnt have the childhood most children have shows that anything is possible. We shouldnt give up on anything when life arrives difficult for us. Bilgere proves to his reader that giving up doesnt get you anywhere doing something about it does. Knowing that Bilgere was about to find happiness and be confident in the person he had became gives me the hope of a break dance future. Life will through some tough punches but part to take the pain than to give up because god has something better stored for the future.