Question

(1).How did you relate to the characters in this story or poem? “Boy Flying”

(2).Answer ALL of the following questions:
1. Identify the author's purpose for writing.
2. Identify the theme of that same story or poem.
3. How did you relate to the characters in this story or poem?
4. What did you learn that you didn’t know before?

Answer 1

Innocence is presented here as freedom from constraint and self-consciousness. The child starts out taking pleasure in an uninhibited life, full of trust in his world, both natural and human. The fragility of this state is clear from images like ‘blossoms' and ‘tender plants .. strip'd'. The child soon experiences the ‘woe' in life and of learning the possibility of failure and betrayal.