Question

4. Do you think that the poet was disappointed with adult
behaviour? Which line in the poem tells you so?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Adults talked of love and preached about it but they did not act lovingly. This is the moment of realization, the speaker begins to understand that adults are hypocritical and do not practice what they preach to children

Answer 2

Answer:

Childhood has for centuries been considered by poets as a blissful period of one’s life. In this poem, the poet exhibits his curiosity to know, when an individual ceases to be a child. The process of growing up from a child to an adolescent and an adult is an inevitable one. There is no line of demarcation between the various stages of life. The poet begins the poem by putting forth this question to himself.