WHY DID jACKIE hOSKING CHOSE A GIANT IN THE POEM?
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In the poem, a little child wonders in her dream, what if it were to be a giant, whether she could stand on her toes and paint the sky with brushes made of tree branches. She wants to paint the clouds, the flowers and dew by mixing colours from the desert with that of the sunrise.
She dreams of her giant strides to the snowy mountains, to fetch snow for painting white and to the corn fields for getting the yellow. She compares the setting sun to the sun getting ready for bed and wants to paint it for the occasion. She wants to make the nights and shadows as black as she can, with ink.
But in the end, she knows that when she comes out her dream, it would be morning and the nature would have painted everything the way she wanted it to be.
The poem ‘If I were a Giant’ was written by Jackie Hosking from Australia. She writes children’s poetry and stories.