This would be admirable but is it possible?

It is possible but requires what that Inuit father had to do; recognize the source of the anger and make a conscious decision to not pass it on to the next generation.  It takes work and effort. 

Anger is an easy emotion, it wells up and can become all consuming.  In doing so it becomes destructive and limiting.  By recognizing the destructive component of the rage, the father is freeing his children to develop their potential by redirecting the anger.

Anger spread throughout the generations is not just individually destructive but destroys whole communities, entire nations.  If left unabated in a nuclear, global village this will utimately lead to the destruction of the planet.

The questions becomes, not whether it is possible, but when do we begin to let go of the anger and start building the foundations that will shelter our children and all the children of the future.  IMHO, the time is now.

LB

For me, the sordid cares in which I dwell
Shrink and consume my heart as heat the scroll;
And wrath has left its scar—that fire of hell
Has left its frightful scar upon my soul.
[...]
Shalt thou not teach me, in that calmer home,
The wisdom that I learned so ill in this—
The wisdom which is love—till I become
Thy fit companion in that land of bliss?

William Cullen Bryant, The Future Life

thanks for sharing this poem...these lines sort of knocked be back a little

We don't pass on anger, but the reasons for anger.

Anger itself is a necessary emotion, and has its place. The reasons for anger, however, are created by our thinking minds. They may be inappropriate or invalid, and need to be examined carefully.

Anjali, for me poetry  has a way of revealing an inner truth and those lines attracted my attention as well yet it is the last stanza that I believe to be important.

As Arminius pointed out anger has a place, it can be a great motivator to correct injustices.   It is the anger that turns to wrath, the rage that evolves into desires for vengenance, that needs to be redirected into a positive redress instead of the nursing of age old wounds.

Our poets, sages, prophets, wise men (and women) have warned us, beseeched us and shown the way for each of us to embrace peace not just for the sake of others but for our own sake.

LB

If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.

If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.

If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.

If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.

If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
       Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)

I think I reacted so strongly to the other lines because I grew up in an environment that was chaotic, violent, and confusing. Now that I have reread the last verse, as you pointed out, I can see that what I need and what I have always wanted is "the wisdom that is love" and have sought out teachers who could point me in this direction. I once had the good fortune to live in a Buddhist monastery where Pema Chodron, an American Buddhist nun is the abbess. When I had my personal interview with her we were discussing the violent upbringing I had experienced and she helped me to understand that my father was violent because his father was violent, beating him regularly into his teen years when he was caught ditching church (they were of a very strict baptist denomination) and humiliating him in many different ways. Not only did this make my father rather resentful of org. religion but also prone to deal with things violently even with little children. What Pema Chodron said to me broke my heart but I knew it was true. She said I could have grown up a bitter twisted twig, but instead had chosen robes and the Bodhisattva vow which basically involves that one's life is lived in order to free others from suffering. The irony was that it was my father who had first put the book "The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha" into my hands as a child. My father struggled with his upbringing, and yet in a sense I benefited from his struggle and she said it would be good to forgive him and thank him for giving me a choice in how I was going to live my life, that bodhisattvas transform suffering with love, and it was up to me to stop that legacy of hurt so it didn't get passed onto another generation.  The last verse of the poem you quoted reminded me of that.

LBMusoka:

Thank you for a moving and beautiful reply.

Anjali:

You have had severe trauma to overcome. Good luck to you.

Armenius:

You are right, in saying to examine the reason for our anger.

To me, I can then do two things: silently say a prayer of thanks to God for my life, and let the anger go, or : determine if there is something I can do, without hurting anyone, that will prevent the anger-producing incident, from happening again. And then do it.

For example, in my work as a pharmacist, my boss once balled me out for not catching an incorrect DIN (drug identification number) on a hardcopy. I felt angry. The checking of the DIN was not my job: it was supposed to be the technician's job, and indeed, she had initialled the DIN, signifying that she had checked it. Evidently, she had not.

Instead of keeping on feeling angry, I  resolved to always from then on check the DIN Myself, and initial it. And, you don't know how many times this resolve has saved my butt....

Also, when I want to correct a technician, I try to say something like "I like it when you do ...this way..." It saves me criticizing them, and feeling angry. And anger, in the workplace, to me is a very distracting emotion. It impairs my reasoning.

How do people in the Mid East forget the wrongs of the past? Especially when they live everyday with reminders of what has happened? I don't know.

But, I do suspect that purposefully telling our children of the reasons for anger, and growing it in them, is not the way to peace.  An Indian colleague, who is afraid India may enter war with Pakistan, says that Muslim extremists in Pakistan make videotapes of Hindu violence toward Muslims, and show them to young recruits, to incite hatred. This is not the way to peace.