Childhood

By-MARKUS NATTEN

POEM
1St stanza
WHEN DID MY CHILDHOOD
GO?
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WAS IT THE DAY I CEASED TO BE
ELEVEN, by abc
WAS IT THE TIME I REALISED THAT HELL AND
HEAVEN,
COULD NOT BE FOUND IN
GEOGRAPHY,
AND THEREFORE COULD NOT BE,
WAS THAT THE DAY
 2nd stanza

When did my childhood go?

Was it the time I realised that adults
were not
All they seemed to be,
They talked of love and preached of
love,
But did not act so lovingly,
Was that the day!
3 stanza
Rd

When did my childhood go?

Was it when I found my mind was really
mine,
To use whichever way I choose,
Producing thoughts that were not those or
other people
But my own, and my alone
Was that the day!
4Th Stanza
Where did my childhood go?
It went to some forgotten place,
That’s hidden in an infant’s face, That’s
all I know.
 Summary
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• Stanza 1
"Childhood" begins with the speaker addressing a child who is in
school, describing the child's feelings of boredom, loneliness, and
alienation from other children. Adopting the language of a typical
school boy's view of the world, the speaker says, "Time in school
drags along with so much worry / and waiting, things so dumb
and stupid." The speaker contrasts this negative representation of
school with the joy the child feels after school. When school lets
out, the boy is free, the world now expansive and inviting. These
feelings are illustrated in the images of leaping fountains and
mysterious "woody places." However, even in his newfound
freedom, the boy still feels odd, different from others. This
difference is illustrated in the image of him walking oddly.
Stanza-2
In this stanza, the speaker foregrounds his point
of view as someone looking back on childhood.
He compares the "terror" of childhood with the
"trust" of adulthood, as evoked in the images of
men and women, a house and a dog, and both
marvels at and grieves the change. Even though
the poem is written from a third-person point of
view and attempts to characterize the child's
changing view of the world, the narrator is
clearly present and makes his feelings known. 
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Stanza 3
 
The poem returns to images of childhood, this time to the boy playing
at dusk, "as the light fades away." The "green place" is a descriptive
metaphor for a park or a lawn. As dusk settles, an adult - most likely a
parent - grabs the hand of the boy and leads him away. The "oceanic
vision that is fading" can refer to both the boy's disappointment at
having to stop playing, and the speaker's sense of loss and pain in
remembering his boyhood. The progression of the events in this stanza
are typical of the events of a child's day. 
Stanza 4 
In this last stanza, the speaker compares fading
childhood to the sailboat the child is playing with that
sinks. The imagery here is dreamlike, underscoring
the confusion of a child's mind and the place of
memory itself. The "sails more beautiful / than
yours" suggests people more beautiful and lives more
beautiful than the child's and the narrator's. The
"pale / narrow face" is the face of the child himself,
and his puzzling about the future is also the
speaker's mourning about the past. The poem ends
with the child wondering where childhood will lead
him. 
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reated by-Kamlesh Mirche
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