My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were Rough,

The poem is about rich vs poor. The author, Stephen Spender, came from a rich & permit British background - his work is often considered to be autobiographic (i.e. he often writes about his own life by means of his work) He wrote of his own childhood: I had the most tormented adolescence anyone has ever had in the whole of history. His m different came from a sloshed Anglo-German Jewish family & many think that he wrote about situations which communicate everywhere so the reader can relate to them.

My parents kept me from children who were rough
Who threw denominations like stones and who torn clothes.
Their thighs showed through rags.They ran in the street
And climbed clifs and mere(a) by the country streams.

The rough kids (in the poets opinion) are aggressive, difficult, poor, lower class, outdoor-ish & FREE. The poet uses a mixture of both positive and negative words to get word them which suggests that he both fears them merely wants to be part of their group.

If feared to a greater extent than tigers theit: musdes like iron
Their jerking hands and their knees tight on my arms.
I feared the common salt coarse pointing of those boys
Who copied my lisp git me on the road.





salt coarse = unrefined, coarse (as in without any social graces etc)He contrasts their force-out (muscles like iron, tigers, jerking hands, knees etc) with his own weakness - fear, copied, lisp! The word tiger is significant because a tiger is free (like the rough kids) but they are dangerous because they are physically powerful.

They were lithe, they sprang out behind hedges
Like dogs to bark at my world. They threw mud
While I looked the other way, pretending to smile.
I longed to forgive them, but they never smiled.

The contrasts over again between weak & strong - lithe, sprang, barked. Those are all strong words suggesting that he was bullied by the local gang of street children. He was excluded from their community because of his class & his lisp. He seems to be envious of their immunity - the freedom...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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