- writer's name The man who is the speaker in this poem is a retired professor. He is known as Professor Seth. He addresses his student by telling him "Remember me? I am Professor Seth". The Professor has made a language error while talking to his student but he has used this awkward type of language throughout the poem . He continues by reminding his student that once he used to teach him geography. While talking to him about schooldays he straight goes into the story of his own life. He is retired now but he is healthy and his wife died some years ago. His children are doing well and they are well settled in their life. So the Professor boasts about his children's status. One is a Sales manager and the other is a Bank manager. They both have cars. He also criticised his other children like his third son who are not doing well. He criticises him by telling this clause that "family must have a black sheep". He then boasts about his two daught