Question

Basketfull of moonlight poem appreciation​

Answer 1

Answer:

The central idea of the poem is a child’s desire to spend more time with his father. It is about a child’s imagination where he thinks he can help his father and other villagers return home early by lighting their path back from work with seeds of moonlight.

In this poem, a child admires the beauty of the moon and requests the moon to give him it’s moonlight. He want the moonlight as everyday the villagers including his father get late returning home due to the dark and dangerous path from the city to the village. By sowing the seeds of moonlight on the sides of the path, he feels his father will be able to return early before he goes to bed and spend more time with him.