I'm sad to read that any Sphere member says "criticism is not one of my gifts," since I've always figured our reason for being here should be to serve as critics of each other's work.
There's some virtue in being reminded of this poem later in life, since the language and images are more evocative to a person with more reading and more experience than they are to a child.
That said, remembering "A Child's Garden..." at this late date recalls that there are some poems in it that are more questionable. I wonder whether a young child understands the irony and the colonialist attitudes in the poem that begins, "Little Indian, Sioux or Crow...."
Last edited by Maryann Corbett; 10-25-2012 at 10:05 AM.
Reason: dumb subject-verb agreement error
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