Criminal and constant Essay

What impression do we form of puerility in I Remember, I Remember and Growing Up? What similarities/differences do we recognise in the poets admission? In the poem Growing Up, by U. A. Fanthorpe, the main new-sprung(prenominal)spaper of childhood is trivialised by the poet in the first stanza. Shoplifting daintily into my walker implies gracefulness and therefore is a humorous. However, at the same time, it is light-hearted and trivialises the age of creation a baby. The poet mocks the years when you are a baby, too, describing her action of burrowing my way through the ample yawn of infancy.This suggests that she is hiding from the years of infancy. At the same time, it mocks infancy as the long yawn refers to the fact that babies tend to sleep a lot when they are very young. Fanthorpes choice of words shows her abhor for childhood. Nudging implies that childhood was urging her insistently and annoyingly to grow up, and she did not wish to go through childhood. Nudging im plies persistence, which can be perceived to be annoying. Moreover, she relates bum and prohibit familiaritys with growing up. Hairy, fleshy growths and monthly outbursts and blood-thighed are examples of this.This emphasises her dis wish for childhood. The poet shows that childhood is mechanical by describing the people who fit into society as well-oiled bolts. This is not a warm description of childhood, showing it to be a ugly part of life. The poet in this poem brings out the idea of childhood being inevitable. I tried to annul the future, pretended I knew it already implies her try to ignore the future, but constantly getting evidence of her growing up into a woman. This shows that you cant fight childhood, it will happen whether you like it, or not.The poem suggests that there is something sinister about childhood. Sinister phraseology is used throughout it, like, masking, sabotaging, criminal and constant negative statements like, non a nice girl. No. These quotations help to emphasise the negative forest of the poets view to childhood. Now I shall move on to analysing I Remember, I Remember by Philip Larkin. Initially, Larkin expresses his journey happened in the cold new year. This suggests that childhood is like a new beginning, but he is not hearty and warm towards it he appears to be cold towards childhood.Next, Larkin expresses his negative feelings about childhood. I wasnt even clear which side was which is instead casual, and the tone appears to suggest that he does not really care earnestly about childhood. Simultaneously, he degrades childhood to little value when Larkin states, No, only where my childhood was unspent, I wanted to retort, just where I started. By this he mode that his childhood was wasted and therefore, it was of little value for him. It was only the foundations of what he would experience in later life.He seems ashamed and embarrassed about his childhood when the poet writes, staring at my boots. At the same time , this implies boredom, too. It is in a screw contrast to the question that his friend asks in the next line, Was that where you have your grow? because roots implies stability, solidity and a validating anchorage symbol. It is a positive question, full of optimism, in contrast to the friends view on Coventry and his childhood. The enjambment and illogical order of his recollections of his childhood memories suggest a feeling of spontaneity, which may reflect the authors view on growing up.