Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies

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The poem Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies, is written in open verse. It has no particular rhyme scheme and does not have any parameter. I was able to locate a couple of metaphors. In line 3 when she writes, "Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies" (3). Also in line 30 she writes, "To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died" (30).

I do not feel that Edna wrote this poem with much thought of rhyme schemes and iambicpentameter. Rather I think she wrote this poem out of a deep feeling she had inside her. Sometimes feelings can loose there meaning if you don not express them just the way they feel. I believe that is the case in this poem. This is a case where Edna just wanted to express a feeling excactly the way it felt inside of her.

To me, this poem comes across as a depressing relalization of no no longer having the innocents the being a child provides. I think Edna must have experinced a tragic loss of someone in her life who meant a great deal to her. I also think that she wishes she had spent more time with this person, or at least enjoyed the time they spent together more.

The first and second lines of this poem are very true. "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age a

In lines 9 through 16 Edna writes about how a child might first encounter death first hand when the family cat dies. But the way she writes, " You fetch a shoe-box, but it's much too small, because she won't curl up now: So you find a bigger box" (13, 14), makes the experince seem so cheesey. She follows up with this thought when she writes, "But you do not wake up a month from from then, two months, a year from then, two years, in the middle of the night and weep, with your knuckles in your mouth, and say Oh, God! Oh, God!" (17-20). At this point in the poem you begin to relalize that Edna must have lost someone close to her. These feelings are those written by someone who has first hand experince of what it is like to miss someone who is dead.

nd at a certain age the child is grown and puts away childish things" (1,2). I think what Edna is trying to express is that when you reach a particular age you don't just start being an adult. Being an adult is not something you just wake up one day an decide to be.

In lines 23 through 29 I think that Edna is expressing some kind of remorse for not having enjoyed the time she spent with the person who passed away. She writes, "Tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow if you're busy having fun, Is plenty of time to say, "I'm sorry, mother"" (27-29). I began to wonder at this point if it was Edna's mother who died, or if she wrote those lines to make death seem more real to the readers. I think either way, it's a point well taken by myself.

In the third and fourth lines she writ

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Approximate Word count = 1041
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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