Summary of the poem Amanda
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This poem has been written by Robin Klein. It depicts the state of a little girl's mind who is continuously instructed about what to do and what to do not.
The little girl Amanda is told not to bite her nails. She is told not to hunch her shoulders and to sit straight. She is told to finish her homework and tidy her room and she is strictly forbidden to eat chocolate for fear that she might get acne. She is also accused of sulking (sadness). But, the little girl Amanda keeps dreaming of a life of freedom in the open. She dreams that she is a mermaid in the sea. She also dreams that she is an orphan and she is roaming barefoot in the dusty street. She also dreams that she is rapunzel who lives alone in the high tower.
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Amanda is written by Australian poet Robin Klein. The poet deals with the theme of torture and ill-treatment of young children by their parents. In the poem, Amanda is a young girl who is constantly insulted by her parents for various mistakes she commits.
As a child, she feels depressed and sorrowful In order to escape from the daily ill-treatment, she imagines herself to be free and enjoying.
In the poem, one stanza describes how she is insulted by her parents and the succeeding (the next one) which is in bracket tells which she imagines escaping from the pain of harassment.