and thoughts concerning the growth and experiences faced by both children and parents.

The poets who write about the school children use references to the bible and fears that

they describe to explain the emotions and effects that the poems have on readers. By

doing this the poets have conveyed the points of time, protection and the causes of the

environments that many children are faced with today.

In the poem Among Children, Levine explains a story of children as they grow

up. In the poem the author acts as almost a third person or narrator to the lives of the

children growing up. I walk among the rows of bowed heads the children sleeping

through fourth grade so as to be ready for what is ahead (Levine 685). By telling us

about their lives from the early age we get a reference of time in the poem. By using time

we are able to see the cause of events in their lives. Levine uses time almost in a way to

describe their fate. A fate of hard work and simplicity: nothing more really. Levine

describes the background of the environment to help in the reference of time. Thes

like to sit down and read to them slowly the book of Job (Levine 685). By doing this she

these poems, because we see many of them. To put in prospective their meaning you

the children of Flint, their fathers work in spark plug factories or truck bottled water

events to the poems in a way to support the poem or help make the meaning of the poem

do not come true due to the knowledge of predestine lives. A fate Levine feels is not their

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