In each poem “On Turning Ten”(Collins), “The Fury of Overshoes”(Sexton), and “Hanging Fire”(Lorde), the speaker is reflecting on the remembrance of his or her childhood. Each having a different aspect of what is was to be a child. In each poem the speaker is using imagery, and irony speaking of their childhood memories, or just what it is to be a child.

“On Turning Ten”(Collins), the speaker is an adult who is remembering the whole idea of turning ten, as if it was going to be the greatest turning po

int in his life. He tells us how he remembers at age four he was an Arabian wizard, or could make himself invisible just by drinking a glass of milk a certain way. Then he describes to us how, by watching the late afternoon light, it never fell so solemnly against the side of his tree house, since he had turned the ripe age of ten.

The poems should have the reader remembering his or her childhood, growing up; or what it feels like to be a fourteen-year-old girl, and nothing is ever right. The poems also show the innocence of a child, the smells, the feelings…the good ole’ times with no cares or worries in the world. But then after the reader has finished that last stanza, has read the last line, he is smacked back into reality, realizing that when you fall upon the sidewalks of life, you bleed, welcoming you to what you always wanted…

Some topics in this essay:
Overshoes” Sexton, Fury Overshoes”, Fury Overshoes”Sexton, , “the fury, “the fury overshoes”, fury overshoes”, child “on, phase life, ten “the, “on ten”collins, “hanging fire”lorde,