Question

Am i a child poem explaination

Answer 1

Answer:

In the first stanza, the mother describes the child's "clear eye" as the one completely beautiful and perfect thing she knows. She wants to fill the eye with colors, ducks, and "the zoo of the new."

In the second stanza, she mentions two sweet, white flowers – “April snowdrop, Indian pipe." In the third stanza, she meditates on her child's perfection, which she likens to a “Little / Stalk without wrinkle.” She hopes that everything her child sees will be “grand and classical," as opposed to the anxious hand ringing and darkness like a ceiling "without a star," which she describes in the fourth stanza.