Analysis Of Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies

In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies”, she compares how childhood to a place where no one necessarily dies as a metaphor. That in short, that the innocence which comes with childhood and youth is where no one really dies. For instance, yes family pets, elderly people, but not much of people that play an important role in one’s life. Especially not your immediate family, such as a child 's parent and so forth. In the lines 25-28, visually you can imagine a grown young lady sitting besides her elderly mother while drinking some tea. These lines, then go on the illustrate how the narrator is grown up and reminiscing on how easy it was to be a child. It was the time where she had not fully realized that people do pass on even parents that have watched her slowly become the woman she is now. She now sits besides someone who is older who appears to have dementia and doesn’t really pay …show more content…
Though there were a few metaphors that expressed the main ideas of the poem. In line 3 she writes, “Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies”. Along with line 30 she states, “To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died”. The main idea that flows throughout the poem is the idea that childhood is not course of years or a physical, developmental stage in life, but more of an area in where we as humans remain distant from our surroundings. This is especially explained in lines 1-7 expressing that a child is open with imagination and in their own world where almost everything is make-believe and creative. The poem comes across rather sad and depressing with the realization of no longer having the innocence of being a child. There can be a possibility that the author Edina wrote this poem with personal experience behind the lines. Maybe she had lost someone who had an important role in her life and she wished she may have spent more time alongside