Final Draft
Major Paper #1
Mrs. Thompson
February 15, 2017
Unhappy Life The poem, "I Go Back to May 1937" by Sharon Olds is about a child looking back at her parents life and telling about the mistakes they are about to make. Mistakes such as getting married and having a baby and they have no idea that is a huge mistake they are about to make. A speaker of any poem is important, the speaker of this poem is an adult child who is telling the story about her parents in college. A superficial reader might assume that the speaker doesn't want to live, but actually the speaker wants to live to tell about her parents mistakes. Sharon Olds poem "I Go Back to May 1937," the speaker says "they are about to graduate, they are about to get married,
Major Paper #1
Mrs. Thompson
February 15, 2017
Unhappy Life The poem, "I Go Back to May 1937" by Sharon Olds is about a child looking back at her parents life and telling about the mistakes they are about to make. Mistakes such as getting married and having a baby and they have no idea that is a huge mistake they are about to make. A speaker of any poem is important, the speaker of this poem is an adult child who is telling the story about her parents in college. A superficial reader might assume that the speaker doesn't want to live, but actually the speaker wants to live to tell about her parents mistakes. Sharon Olds poem "I Go Back to May 1937," the speaker says "they are about to graduate, they are about to get married,