Question

Explain......................
Where did my childhood go?
It went to some forgotten place,
That’s hidden in an infant’s face,
That’s all I know.

Answer 1

In the last stanza, the poet remorses about his lost childhood. He concludes that his childhood had gone to some forgotten place which will never come back. He cherished his innocence which vanished now and could be only seen in a baby’s face. He only has sweet memories of his childhood which would soon fade away. He also conveyed a message that the innocence of childhood stays till the time one is an infant and that is all he knows.

Answer 2

Answer:

I do not understand this childThough we have lived together now

In the same house for years. I knowNothing of him, so try to build

Up a relationship from howHe was when small. Yet have I killed