The_Stolen_Child

The Stolen Child Childhood memories are very precise to one’s life. The recollection of pure innocence, freedom, fun with no responsibilities or nothing to be concerned about. But as we all know, we grown up and mature and slowly but surely ones childhood is nothing but special memories. Although childhood is the beginning of our life that is filled with nothing but innocent fun, that does not mean growing up takes away ones freedom and happiness. In the poem “The Stolen Child” by William Butler Yeats, he reminds us life as a child is a fantasy world that should be kept a memory because if one tries to relive it, they would not be as happy as they think. W.B Yeats illuminates the theme of his poem by using print, sound, imagery, metaphor, symbolism and irony. Using print and sound Yeats tells the reader the poem is a simple, flowing poem. Yeats makes the poem rhyme like a child’s nursery rhyme, “Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild” (9-10) Despite the flow of the poem he also uses harsh sounding words such as “gushes” “troubles” “unquiet” etc, used to describe the real world, which one lives world, poem, yeats, real, ones, one, childhood, child, using, stanza, life, being, tone, theme, symbolism, nothing, memories, island, fun, dream, away, tries, takes, sound, song, sad, rhyme, responsibilities, relive, pure, print, mingling, metaphor, memory, make, irony