Indian Boyhood
Indian Boyhood - fact Summary
Reflects Childhood in India
The poem sketches a speaker's melancholic questioning about the disappearance of his childhood self. It imagines the boy who once laughed and swam in India as lost or fled, and the adult is left wondering if there is any way to return, recover, or be recompensed for that vanished past. The tone is elegiac and searching, centered on memory, regret, and the sense of irretrievable loss.
Read Complete AnalysesWhat happened to the boy I was? Why did he run away? And leave me old and thinking, like There'd been no yesterday? What happened then? Was I that boy? Who laughed and swam in the bund* I there no going back? No recompense? Is there nothing? No refund?
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