The Paris Review: Why Poetry A Partial Autobiography

Its almost like an every child thought as a kid and as they grow up. Little kids, most of the time, looks up to their mothers, father or a guardian. We are influenced on how they walk, talk and just how they act. We look up to the "adults" of our lives for guidance and to be honest they are all we know as a kid. There is always that saying as a kid of "I want to be like Ma/Pa when I grow up". The author said "I could not learn to become my mother for obvious reasons that were not obvious to me, so I waited." I Think that every child is like that, the see the adults in their life doing things that at that age they cannot do. We wish that we can but we cant, so we wait and wait, and when we get to that age, it seems that there is no point to follow in our parents or guardian's footprints. As the poem continue, its like a person growing. How thoughts change and so does feeling. How we use to think one thing was fine and not were at that age when things are different, we end up thinking negative, that we are strange. Which is puberty. the end of the poem is adult hood. He has reach the stage of everything is alright and throughout his childish years and growth. he has changed for the better.