Is the poet's attainment of adulthood ended with his stage of childhood?Justify briefly

Dear Student

The poet feels he does not truly know when he stopped being a child and does not know where his childhood went. He theorises it could be the day he knew that Heaven and Hell are merely ideas rather than actual places, or the day when he realised that adults are often hypocrites, preaching love but never truly practising it. 

Thinking of the first two stanzas, he realises that that he slowly became an adult, only when he started thinking for himself, rather than blindly believing in what other people said. Now being able to think for himself as an adult should, he says that he has discarded his childhood, and his look of naivety and innocence is now being worn by some other child. 


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