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Explore the ways in which memories of childhood are present in 'Plenty'. In 'Plenty' the poet, Isobel Dixon, uses different types of language to convey her ideas about the different memories of childhood, several other poems in the collection of 'Songs of Ourselves' also deal with the idea of childhood memories. This poem can be connected with "Little Boy Crying" because in 'Plenty' the children have a different perception of what is going on with their mother, and in "Little Boy Crying" we also see a difference in perception between the adult who is punishing the child and the child's description of the adult as "The ogre towers above you" This description is very exagerated and shows the child's very immature perception of what is going on around them. There are several different memories used throughout the poem, such as, regret, that she didn't understand what her mother had to cope with, which then transfers to guilt that she hadn't...

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