a) why does the poet think he has lost his childhood?
b) the poet asks four questions in the poem but he knows only one answer for sure. Discuss the four questions and the answer he comes with.
c) is it easy to retain one's childhoodinnocence throughouthis life? how can one do it without been adulterated by religion, education and the main stream society?
a)The poet thinks he had lost his childhood because at the age of eleven he realised that hell and heaven were not places that could be found in Geography and since then he had never been the same person.
b) The four questions asked by the poet are, if he lost his childhood during the time when he realized that hell and heaven could not be found in Geography, if it was the time when he realized that adults were not all that they were supposed to be, if it was the day he found out that his mind was truly his own private space and finally, the location where his lost childhood might be. The only question to which he attempts to frame an answer is the last one where he comments that his lost childhood must have gone to some forgotten place that is hidden in an infant's face.
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b) The four questions asked by the poet are, if he lost his childhood during the time when he realized that hell and heaven could not be found in Geography, if it was the time when he realized that adults were not all that they were supposed to be, if it was the day he found out that his mind was truly his own private space and finally, the location where his lost childhood might be. The only question to which he attempts to frame an answer is the last one where he comments that his lost childhood must have gone to some forgotten place that is hidden in an infant's face.
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