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Childhood Summary Class 11th English

The poem "Childhood" by Markus Natten depicts the transition from childhood innocence to adult rationality and individuality. The poet wonders when exactly his childhood ended - was it when he stopped believing in concepts like heaven and hell after learning they are not found on maps, or when he started to see the hypocrisy of adults and realize people are not always as they seem, or when he developed his own thoughts and opinions. In the end, the poet realizes he no longer knows where his childhood went, only that it has gone to the face of a new infant, as childhood is a cycle that leaves one person and becomes reality for another.

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Childhood Summary Class 11th English

The poem "Childhood" by Markus Natten depicts the transition from childhood innocence to adult rationality and individuality. The poet wonders when exactly his childhood ended - was it when he stopped believing in concepts like heaven and hell after learning they are not found on maps, or when he started to see the hypocrisy of adults and realize people are not always as they seem, or when he developed his own thoughts and opinions. In the end, the poet realizes he no longer knows where his childhood went, only that it has gone to the face of a new infant, as childhood is a cycle that leaves one person and becomes reality for another.

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Childhood Summary Class 11th English

By Markus Natten

In the poem ‘Childhood’, Markus Natten depicts the reality of childhood innocence gradually
transforming into adult rationality, hypocrisy and individuality. The poem begins with the poet
wondering when did his childhood go – was it the day he ceased to be eleven; was it the day when he
could distinguish between fantasy and reality by realizing that heaven and hell don’t exist since they are
not found in geography books; was it the day when he could understand the hypocrisy of adults by
realizing that people were not all that they pretended to be; or was it the day when he became
conscious of his own growing individuality by realising that he had a mind of his own and that he was
capable of producing thoughts and opinions that were different from other people.

In the final lines, the poet concludes the speculations in his mind regarding his lost childhood. He now
tries to understand where his childhood has gone. Though he is not aware of the day he lost his
childhood, he knows that it has gone to some forgotten place, that is, on the face of an infant. The poet
believes that though his childhood has become a memory for him, it has become a reality for some
other child. Childhood is a cyclic process, where it leaves one person and goes to another

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