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Poems: My parents (Analysis (threw words like stones It (They taunted him…
Poems: My parents
Analysis
Title: My Parents
As this poem is – on the surface - more about the children than his parents, –
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My parents
They, not the rough children, are being accused for their treatment of the speaker,
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kept
The word suggests possessiveness, control, even a feeling of imprisonment.
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ran … climbed … tripped
These words suggest happiness, enjoyment, fun and freedom.
The children are very active, as reflected by the verbs describing them and
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feared
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Stanza 2 tells us his feelings, and the dominant feeling is fear:
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muscles like iron –
This simile makes the children, boys presumably, sound hard, unforgiving and cold – like iron
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my world
These words, followed by the caesura, emphasise the gulf which separates his own pampered middle class world from theirs.
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pretended to smile
Why?
to try and persuade them he didn’t care,
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but they never smiled
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The poem therefore ends with a feeling of rejection,
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Tone,
he tone of the poem is envious (of the ‘rough’ children),
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