Analysis of the poem My Parents

This poem highlights the social class difference that we have in society today. The

persona speaks of how his parents prevented him from speaking and playing with boys from a

lower social class, more or less those who were in poverty. We get this from the line which

speaks that they wore torn cloths where their skin showed through. The fist line of the poem

mentions that his parents never wanted him to play with children who are rough which implied

that they