Commentary On "To Carry The Child"

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This poem is about the negative things and troubles of carrying a child. This poem is meaningful and satirize. It talks about the child's innocence, but sometimes it is not a good thing though. Children's hearts are weak, their feeling and thinking are excessive. They can feel things straightly and truly . And they would do something bad and destructions if adults do not teach them the right way, and they would make trouble. People are saying a man is having a higher status than a child and they have "the upper hand of child"(l.21-22). But actually children do. The adults think that it is not happy at all to "carry a child into adulthood"(l.25-26). They rather the children die before they are growing, "die in their infanthood"(l.28). But that would be a "prison room"(l.32) for the children if they cannot grow, because of the adults afraid that the children would bring them trouble. It is struggling for the adults "to carry a child". The use of symbolism in this poem illustrates that it is not a good thing to watch a child to grow. Adults would be "handicapped"(l.4) because they have to take care of the kids but they do not have the wisdom that adult does, so the adult has to act more like a child, be a friend of their kids. Which means the adult has to be a kid when they are taking care of the children, talk like a kid, play like a kid, and they are handicapped! The word of "excessive"(l.17) means that everything the kids have done are excessive. Like their thinking, their acting, and even their feeling. Which means they are easy to be angry and crying all the time. The symbol of "guilty"(l.29) represents the adults usually do not know what to do was right. The kids are so annoying that the adults want them "to die in their infanthood"(l.28). But they are not cold-blood animals, so they would "feel guilty of no man's blood"(l.29). This is saying the

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