What Is Farm Boys About

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The poem I most identify with is Farm Boys, the narrator in this poem is reflecting on how his life differs so greatly from the farm boys that he grew up with. While Saskatoon is a much larger place than a rural farm, I still identify with the narrator’s desire to move somewhere else. The line “I wouldn't understand why the end of grade twelve meant goodbye for me and not for them,” is one line that I identify because I too would like to move to a new city if not after high school, then after university. Also I often am amazed by people who have or plan to live in the same place for the rest of their lives. I often wonder what would hold them to one place wen there is so much more to see and experience.
The line “they were still going round

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