nothing for everything
...ife. The childhood represents the pureness and naive ness stage of her life. “But now” (7) is when the poet is a grown up person. She talks about how every thing has been changed as she passed her childhood. She also talks about how everything that seemed simple and pure in her childhood, now seem very different and intricate. “Language is difficult indeed” (26) means even words are not able to describe this complicacy that happened as she grew up. Ice cream cones, flashlights, mustard and china plate are the words the poet has used to compare the life with them. All these words are very simple and kids are familiar with them. But later in the poem as she talks about her adulthood, all these words replaced with more difficult and mature words such as politics, friendship and work. Now the poet knows the life is not only about the ice cream cones or mustard but it is about facts which can be as simple as ice cream cones or as complicated as politics. Repetition is one of the important poetic devices that make this poem effective and more understandable. “But” (7) separate the poem from two different worlds which are childhood and adult...