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Summary. ‘ Child’ by Sylvia Plath, written in the perspective of a mother, depicts her hope in the child’s better future. The poem contrasts the happy future of her son/daughter to the troubled future of the mother. Sylvia Plath in her ‘Child’ depicts her love and all the beautiful things she hopes for her son/daughter’s future.
- Female
- March 18, 1991
- Poetry Analyst
Robert Louis Stevenson’s influential 19th-century children’s book, A Child’s Garden of Verses, is the source of the poem “The Wind.”. This collection contains several poems that describe how a child thinks and appreciates nature. It was first published in 1885. A children’s book of 1880 influenced Stevenson to write this collection.
Summary. This short poem is spoken from a mother to her child. In the first stanza, the mother describes the child's "clear eye" as the one completely beautiful and perfect thing she knows. She wants to fill the eye with colors, ducks, and "the zoo of the new." In the second stanza, she mentions two sweet, white flowers – “April snowdrop ...
First-class B.A. Honors Degree in English Literature. ‘Childhood’ by Markus Natten is a poem about the childhood of the poet. The poet talks about the transition of the poet from his childhood to maturity. As he matured, he forgot about the time when he started to think like adults. There is a hidden pain of the poet which hovers around the ...
- Male
- Poetry Analyst And Editor
The poet is addressing her infant child. She is obviously besotted with the child saying that its ‘eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing’. However, this could also suggest that she is unsatisfied with everything else in the world. She writes of her hopes for the child, that it will be happy, that she can fill its eye with
Poem Analyzed by Allisa Corfman. Parents everywhere can relate to this poem, Walking Away, by Cecil Day-Lewis. Here, the speaker is a parent who thinks back upon the life of his child. It is the child’s eighteenth birthday, or nearly, and the speaker cannot believe how much time has gone by and how much has changed.
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Nov 10, 2018 · In the first ‘Chimney Sweeper’, from Songs of Innocence, a young chimney sweeper recounts a dream another chimney sweeper, named Tom Dacre, had. In Tom Dacre’s dream an angel rescued all of the boys from coffins and took them to a sunny meadow (i.e. heaven). There they were washed clean: this is a spiritual as well as physical cleaning ...
