The poet reflects on losing his childhood in three ways: realizing his mind was his own and he could think for himself, gaining a sense of originality and individuality; lastly, seeing childhood as a stage that gets replaced by adolescence as infancy is replaced by childhood, with childhood going to some forgotten place hidden in an infant's face.
The poet reflects on losing his childhood in three ways: realizing his mind was his own and he could think for himself, gaining a sense of originality and individuality; lastly, seeing childhood as a stage that gets replaced by adolescence as infancy is replaced by childhood, with childhood going to some forgotten place hidden in an infant's face.
The poet reflects on losing his childhood in three ways: realizing his mind was his own and he could think for himself, gaining a sense of originality and individuality; lastly, seeing childhood as a stage that gets replaced by adolescence as infancy is replaced by childhood, with childhood going to some forgotten place hidden in an infant's face.
The poet then thinks about the third possibility of
losing his childhood which is, when he found out that
his mind was owned by him. He could produce his own thoughts and not those of other people. A sense of originality and individuality dawned on him.
Lastly the poet thinks that his childhood went to some
forgotten place that is hidden in the face of an infant. Through this poem, the poet implies that as infancy is replaced by childhood, in the same way childhood is also followed and replaced by adolescence. It is just a stage in the process of growing up.