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What impression do we form of childhood in "I Remember, I Remember" and "Growing Up"? What similarities/differences do we recognise in the poets' approach?
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What impression do we form of childhood in "I Remember, I Remember" and "Growing Up"? What similarities/differences do we recognise in the poets' approach? In the poem "Growing Up", by U.A. Fanthorpe, the main theme of childhood is trivialised by the poet in the first stanza. "Shoplifting daintily into my pram" implies gracefulness and therefore is a humorous. However, at the same time, it is light-hearted and trivialises the age of being a baby. The poet mocks the years when you are a baby, too, describing her action of "burrowing my way through the long yawn of infancy". This suggests that she is hiding from the years of infancy. At the same time, it mocks infancy as the "long yawn" refers to the fact that babies tend to sleep a lot when they are very young. Fanthorpe's choice of words shows her dislike for childhood. "Nudging" implies that childhood was...
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