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3. “‘My Parents’ and ‘Little Boy Crying’ explore childhood experiences.” Write an essay in which you describe the experience of EACH child. In this essay, you must also discuss how the child in EACH poem feels about the other persons involved in the experience, and examine ONE device that is used to present the child’s experience in EACH poem.
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4. Choose TWO poems that you have studied from the prescribed list which focuses on an individual’s dreams OR desires. Write an essay in which you outline EACH speaker’s dream OR desire. In this essay, you must discuss the speaker’s attitude to the obstacle that affects the achievement of the dream OR desire in EACH poem, and examine ONE device that is used to explore dreams OR desires in EACH poem.
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Parents are always protective. My parents and little boy crying both explore childhood experiences but from different perspectives. The former is where the persona is overly protected by his parents from the rough ragamuffin children in the neighbourhood whereas the latter although protected by his parent via a “quick slap struck” cannot u derstand why.
In the former he wants to be friends but they “never smile in return.” In the latterthe parent is trying to teach a lesson “never make a plaything of the rain.” The child in little boy Crying thi ks of the father as an ogre, a monster he wishes him dead. Whereas the boy in my parents is regretful and sad.
My parents uses several animal imagery and similes to describe the other boys who ostracise and mock the persona; the poet uses the jack and the beanstalk fairytale to convey his personas feelings.