Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies By Edna Millay

1.1. Explain the legal status and principles of the relevant early years framework/s, and how

As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)

There are various discourses of childhood that help us understand how childhood is viewed and how children themselves are seen. It is important to also look outside the system world and look towards the life worlds as it gives a more realistic view of various childhoods and shows how diverse the concept of childhood is because children do not share the same experiences. Regardless if you are looking at the system or life world the notions of rights, opportunities and capabilities are often discussed. These notions aids us in understanding childhood, however they can often obstruct us as well.

The children are unnoticed by others and the mother is the only one that is protecting them. This poem shows the hard times that the mother must face because her children have died. However the mother is coping with them while still protecting her children after they have died, This is the mother's way of coping because she is not yet ready to let go of her children and still wants to care for them. This poem shows this through nature by portraying the mother as a bird who is protecting her nest. Also the poem uses nature by describing the harsh times as a winter wind that has caused harm to the mother and her children.

Gwen Harwood’s, ‘Father and child’, is a two-part poem that tempers a child’s naivety to her matured, grown up attitude. Barn Owl presents a threshold in which the responder is able to witness the initiation of Gwen’s transition. The transformation is achieved through her didactical quest for wisdom, lead by her childhood naivety and is complimented through ‘nightfall’, where we see her fully maturate state. The importance of familial relationship and parental guidance is explored in father and child, as well as the contrasting views on mortality and death. Barn Owl depicts death as a shocking and violent occurrence while the second poem, nightfall, displays that death can be accepted, describing the cyclical and

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Thou famished grave” and “Mindful of you” both include the themes of death, however, “Thou famished grave” uses the personification of a grave as a starving beast, diction to add imagery of starvation, and an image of a strong will to live to show the resentfulness and bitterness that the speaker has towards death, while, “Mindful of you” uses the imagery and personification of the four seasons to remember someone close who has died, to express that although death may take people physically, but they live and are remembered through memories.

The Holocaust was an extremely difficult time for anyone that went into a concentration camp, and family can become one of the most important aspects of life when staying in one. Elie Wiesel delineates the events he experiences during his time with his father in the multiple concentration camps he travels to. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel portrays the recurring theme importance of family throughout certain characters in the story. Through the characters: Shlomo, Stein, and Elie, Wiesel shows the importance of family as a repetitive theme. Shlomo, Elie’s father, demonstrates the importance of family by supporting Elie through, possibly, one of the hardest times of Elie’s life.

Pain and suffering are temporary, but family is forever. Family is one of the most important concepts in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night. Elie Wiesel’s relationship with his father drastically changes over the duration of his journey. Elie begins his experience by being completely dependent upon his father, but as he continues through the horrifying years, he learns to be independent. Even in the very beginning of his journey, Elie Wiesel’s life was dependent on a perfect stranger.

It is the 20th century and Ellen Key wrote a book called “The Century of the Child” and this speech made Margaret think about that book. The author of The Children’s Ear is Margaret Sanger, the date of the speech was March of 1925, and the location of the speech was in New York, NY.

When mentioning their “Meema[’s]” dream of childhood the speaker describes her and her sisters as “beautiful”. Describing their family as “beautiful” is a small way to show how proud the speaker is of their family because if the speaker didn’t care, she wouldn’t compliment them. Upon seeing the grandmother’s quilt the speaker wishes to “inherit that blanket”. The quilt being a symbol of generations past it is a compliment to the family to want it forever and have it be the blanket that the speaker wants to “die under”. The speaker wants to remember all of their family’s history, and continue their family line. The speaker has hopes of meeting a “yet unconceived” son. Continuing the family line displays honor for the speaker’s remaining family members. The speaker wants their child to have the same childhood memories as they

The child called “it” by Dave Pelzer. The time and place the book took place was March 5, 1973, in Daly City, California. Dave Pelzer was a boy who was abused by his own mother. He was the boy who was called “It” in his family house. His Mother would make him eat and drink things that you couldn't even imagine a mother would do. She treated her son as her slave. David wasn't allowed to shower or even wear clean clothes. His mother wouldn’t feed him until the third day. David would always go to school with bruises and scratches. His father, on the other hand, would try to do something but he failed each time he tries to convince David's mother to change her mind.

In stanza 2, he writes “My mother’s countenance/Could not unfrown itself” (7-8); just because her facial expression shows disappointment doesn’t mean she should continue to let her child handle this situation. When the father and son were in the kitchen knocking things off the shelves the mother walks in; her walking in and doing nothing shows signs of neglect. Children shouldn’t have to deal with problems that are out of their control. This display and upbringing takes away his innocence and childhood the more it

Auden touches upon many topics in his poem “Musée des Beaux Arts.” The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century writes that, “the poem condemns people's habitual inattention to the miseries of others” (Mao). In other words, one of the primary focuses in “Musée des Beaux Arts” is that of apathy. Auden begins his poem by writing, “About suffering they were never wrong, / The old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position: how it takes place” (lns. 1-3). Here, Auden is setting up another one of the poem’s main topics, which is human suffering. Auden is writing about how the “old Masters” knew how to capture the image of human suffering within the confines of their canvases (ln. 2). Auden then writes, “While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; / How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting / For the miraculous birth” (lns. 4-6). In these lines Auden is telling his readers that ordinary life will always go on by stating that the old patiently await the arrival of newborn babies, which is a reference to the circle of life. He continues this idea in the next few lines when he writes, “there always must be / Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating / On a pond at the edge of the wood” (lns. 6-8). In lines 6, 7,

The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori Maria Montessori passionately reveals to us the inner workings of children as they develop into their full potential in an effort to assist adults in understanding and supporting this process. The ideas and methods shared have become the foundation for the Montessori model of education. In the introduction, Maria Montessori asserts “there is no real place for children” in today’s modern society where parents are working, cities are crowded and deemed dangerous, and the home is often filled with furnishings off limits to children. We are asked to consider where children feel they belong and are understood. Though Maria believed that great progress was underway when writing this book, with an

After reading The Liars Club an autobiography by Mary Karr, my interpretation of the reading is that she is telling her story from her point of view as a child and as an adult, utilizing foreshadowing and vivid imagery. For example, the reading states “My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark.” “I was seven, and our family doctor knelt before me where I sat on a mattress on the bare floor” (Karr 3). This passage also brought some significance to the story as discussed in class. This helps the reader to understand that a very young age Mary Karr experienced something that was traumatic and it as stuck with her, therefore she labeled is one of her sharpest childhood memories. Usually when things happen to us as children we are not able to remember them exactly in detail, but when they are traumatic events those memories tend to stick with us throughout life. While writing Karr takes the role of two characters, those include the character “Pokey”. In the story this is a representation of Mary Karr a child. Her father Pete calls her Pokey. During this time frame Mary isn’t too aware of what is happening to her, she admires her father, and is also of her sisters. As I continued to read the story the next character that Mary Karr takes on is the narrator or author. This is referenced throughout the story when she looks back on her childhood to try and understand what was happening to her. A good example of this is when the author uses breaking of the fourth