Question

2. What according to the poem is involved in the process of growing up?
3. What is the poet’s feeling towards childhood?

Answer 1

Ans 2: According to the poem, the process of growing up involves attaining maturity and becoming a rational and logical thinker. When the poet became an adult, he was able to see the hypocrisy in other people. He could distinguish in the behaviour of double-standard preach and talk of love. A grown-up can tell a difference between reality and fantasy. A mature person stresses on his thoughts and is capable of having his own opinion.

Ans 3: The poet is disappointed and puzzled by the loss of his childhood. He wanted to know when was the moment he became a grown-up and loss the innocence of an infant. He expresses his confusion by asking that when and where did his childhood go.