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Poet: Anne Sexton
Poem: Young
Volume: All My Pretty Ones
Year: Published/Written in 1962
Comment 26 of 26, added on June 4th, 2008 at 3:56 PM.
The speaker was a girl, probably in her mid-teenage years in this poem, and she is now recalling her summers as a little girl. She has not fully reached the stage of womanhood yet, but she has come to the realization that she is no longer a child. She is apparently very wealthy and probably the only child because she said she was “a lonely kid in a big house.” The light coming out of her mother's window represents her having a warm relationship with her parents, however the half-shut window symbolizes the mystery that her father is in her eyes. And "an eye where sleeper pass" shows that while she does love her father he is a man that often prefers to keep to himself. Though she has a warm relationship with her mother, she does not trust her, which is seen when taking into consideration that her question and thought seem to be confessed only to the stars. The point that the speaker looks as though she is trying to get across is that even though we may feel completely alone at time as we face the many stages and struggles in our lives, we are never truly alone, because we will always have the stars and God to listen to us.
Brooke from Greece
Comment 25 of 26, added on February 25th, 2008 at 9:48 PM.
Ga BEST beset poem ever
Billally Bopkins from Belarus
Comment 24 of 26, added on January 8th, 2008 at 8:07 PM.
I liked this one it gave me a sense of safety and it put an image of God and the starsin my head. It was great.
Antonio Moore
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The speaker was a girl, probably in her mid-teenage years in this poem, and she is now recalling her summers as a little girl. She has not fully reached the stage of womanhood yet, but she has come to the realization that she is no longer a child. She is apparently very wealthy and probably the only child because she said she was “a lonely kid in a big house.” The light coming out of her mother's window represents her having a warm relationship with her parents, however the half-shut window symbolizes the mystery that her father is in her eyes. And "an eye where sleeper pass" shows that while she does love her father he is a man that often prefers to keep to himself. Though she has a warm relationship with her mother, she does not trust her, which is seen when taking into consideration that her question and thought seem to be confessed only to the stars. The point that the speaker looks as though she is trying to get across is that even though we may feel completely alone at time as we face the many stages and struggles in our lives, we are never truly alone, because we will always have the stars and God to listen to us.
Brooke from Greece