My Prayer For My Daughter By William Yeats And Rite Of Passage

This poem is written from the point of view of a child at daycare and displays a child’s accepting love for his carer. As Lynn, the child’s carer, reads him stories and “smells good when she picks [him] up”, the child discovers his love for her (Lee 9). The child narrating the poem also states, “I guess I’m going to marry Lynn”, exhibiting his love for the person who takes care of him (18).Furthermore, the child’s interpretation of love is

In Stevie Smith’s narrative poem To Carry the Child, he writes the experience of a resentful child towards his parent and their overprotective tendencies. The theme of this poem is the dependence a child can have toward others, and how others influence that reliance. The use of the word “carry” creates an image of a child being carried through life instead of learning to walk. With the child being held in someone’s arms, there is no opportunity to trip and fall, step into a puddle or make mistakes that can be learned from. To demonstrate, a simple task such as walking should be relatively safe, but when a parent insists on carrying the child instead of allowing them to learn to walk, their growth is stunted. Smith’s poem aggrandizes the results of children who do not have enough life experience as a result of overprotective parental behaviors.

Children’s minds protect them from the harsher truths, providing fairy tale like stories and maintaining their innocence. As a child there is a simple black and white spectrum of right and wrong, the child’s mind sometimes sheltering them from darker realities. As the child gets older shades of gray become more abundant and looking back on past memories can leave realizations and a change in feeling towards those moments. Theodore Roethke explores this shift in thought in his poem, “My Papa’s Waltz.” This poem is about childhood innocence and it’s affect on perception, especially when viewed in hindsight by a more matured mind, and the realization that comes with looking back. Roethke creates a sense of dual consciousness through an adult’s

Whether life is a steep climb up a shaky stairway or a challenging voyage over rough seas, a parent hopes a child will persevere to the end. In Langston Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" and in Richard Wilbur's poem "The Writer," the poets use the voice of a parent considering a child's future, and both use imagery of struggle and survival to suggest what lies ahead for the child. Although the point of view, context, and language of the two poems differ significantly, the message is the same: a parent wants a good life for his or her child, but knows that many obstacles can block the way.

Most parents acquire a common desire, in which they want their kid to prosper throughout their lifetime. This yearning causes them to devote a vast amount of time and energy into reassuring their kids are following a path to success by working hard and being determined. In this poem, the author deliberately chooses a mother to serve as the primary speaker to create a dramatic scene as she powerfully expounds her approach on life to her son, who also serves as the audience. She makes it her responsibility to pass on wisdom to her son by alluding to the accomplishments and failures she has experienced through the duration of her life.

Through Young’s the reader can begin to understand that Young’s mother is a bit peculiar and whimsical. The reader can also see from the poem that Young cares a great deal for her mother. Young strives to create vivid imagery throughout the poem and helps the reader truly imagine her mother and understand her. She begins the poem with a metaphor for her mother’s hands

The poem describes/separates the fights and complains of a poor lady who has had many (too) early or soon births. The mother has going ahead with tension and stress on account of her troublesome choices. The first (or most important) line of the main poem, "(too) early or soon births won't let you (ignore/not notice)," instantly attracts thoughtfulness (related to/looking at/thinking about) the title, "the mother," and to the importance of "feeling of love"-- what it has meant to the person who tells stories (or lies) to love her children or, rather, the kids she may have

It can be seen that although parents want to protect their daughter, they have to allow their kids to step out of their comfort level and learn how to deal with difficult or challenging circumstances. In addition to this, the author writes this poem in first person and uses personal pronouns. When the parent recalls the instance when she was, “loping beside you as you wobbled away”, it can be seen that the parent is not only sharing her experiences with her audience, but allowing them to see how she felt and the actions she made during times in her past (Pastan 1014). Now, having many years of experience in parents, the parent has come to the realization that her once tiny baby, is now grown up and ready to be self sufficient. To add to this, the author uses conversational syntax, rather than narrative to create a colloquial style of

They have always been there for their daughter and raised her and now she is old enough she can leave. The parent starts remembering the times when their daughter was younger riding bicycle and the all the things they did for her to keep her safe and happy. The daughter leaving has been described as “loping along beside you as wobbled away on two round wheels” (“To a Daughter Leaving Home” 736). Imagery is seen when the reader reads the line where the daughter wheels away on her bicycle wobbling. This poem was written to show younger children that even though we’re old enough to say goodbye to our parents we always need to keep in touch. When the daughter finally says her goodbyes, the parents know that she is not ready to be out on her own. They have seen her fail and stumble throughout life and know that she is not ready to be out on her own. This poem should touch many younger teenagers when they think about moving out on their

While the images of nature are continued with “stubble so brittle”, there is still some connotation of small growing figures. Tree stubbles are short with easy access to be climbed and played upon. It is a small innocent figure that goes along with the speaker’s love for children. While commenting about how she is not acquainted with “women or men” children do seem to be the most important of all people, because in concept they are untainted by the sad truths of reality and the horrors that come with being alive. As the speaker describes nature to be a beautiful thing, her attitudes towards children are the same. This description of roaming freely is contrasted when the speaker shifts the poem to how different it is to the present. Children and childhood are of the past, yet she must deal with adulthood in the present. However, she has not changed. Passing down this knowledge, the speaker states, “it is custom or fate that has made you the creature you are” giving advice that while we change places and stages in life, our memories and background are who we are.

Growing up, children are heavily influenced by their home environment. Whether it's having a disconnected parental figure or the world’s strictest parents, the emotional and intellectual development of youth are directly linked to their parent’s influence. To illustrate this, the poems “My Oedipus Complex” and “Paradise Cafe” enlighten two perspectives of developing children and their struggle to be loved. First, “My Oedipus Complex” puts the reader into the mind of a five-year-old child that grew extremely attached to his mother. Conversely, “Paradise Cafe” displays the effect economic class has on a fifteen-year-old girl in pursuit of love. In an effort to be loved, children tend to fall towards jealousy while isolating themselves into their ignorance. Both situations in these poems lead their protagonists into jealousy, egocentrism, and ignorance.

Childhood is an enjoyable time of life where a child transforms into an adult; a subject that is continually explored through poetry. As a child grows up they need, and subconsciously crave, the guidance of a parent or guardian. Poets relate to the theme of Childhood in many different ways, some with a positive outlook and others more negatively. In the Section C of the Anthology, the three poems I have chosen that discuss this theme are; Half-Past Two by U.A. Fanthorpe, Once upon a Time by Gabriel Okara and A Mother in a Refugee Camp by Chinua Achebe. Three additional poems which also relate to this topic are; The Orange Bears by Kenneth Patchen, The Pennycandystore Beyond the El by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke. Each poet portrays how a child needs the guidance of an adult figure in their life, to teach them a lesson or to care for them, whether explicitly or implicitly. There are numerous ways in which these six poems compare and contrast; both with regard to their content and the stylistic devices that are utilised with relevance to childhood.

As a young generation, teens hear of how their parents, even grandparents, grew up. Teens are informed of how schools, desires, fashion, and knowledge were all viewed upon “back then.” Some are notified that they are lucky with all of the technology there is today, and the benefits of being a young adolescent with today’s advancements. Some even suggest we take for granted all of the information that has already been discovered. Society has made improvements enough so that we can search almost any problem or idea online. Being more in touch with the new technology and easy, readily available information causes some people to not be as open to our older generations, who have knowledge to supply for us. Not growing up with same resources and traditions adults have creates a lack of full understanding of the ways we can learn from and respect those who grew up before us. While childhoods may have been different, both generations still share some of the same morals as early generations. By depicting birds as symbols of the natural world, in “The Wild Swans at Coole,” and of near immortality in “Sailing into Byzantium,” the two poems shows how Yeats’s concerns progress from the world of the mind and body to earthly concerns of his whole world and nature.

An analysis of poems discussing the different ideas of infancy and what infancy and childhood means to different people. The ideas of infancy vary across the poems from being a curse to the family to being a blessing from the heavens or even a key to break out of the boundaries set by reality. The poets use various literary devices such as metaphors, similes and different poem structure to convey the message that they carry. Each poem has its own viewpoint on infancy. On the whole four of the poems, “Infant Joy” –William Blake, “You’re” – Sylvia Plath, “Once upon a time” – Gabriel Okara and “Piano” by D.H. Lawrence all have a more positive view towards infancy whereas, “ Infant Sorrow” – William Blake and “Prayer before birth” – Louis MacNeice show a more pessimistic side towards infancy. Despite the fact that each poem has its own different point of view on the subject of infancy, they all seem to share one thought which is the fact that infancy represents innocence and in some cases a fresh start.

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