The poem
That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze As brazen, fierce and huge, as red and gold And zany yellow as the one that spoiled Three thousand guineas' worth of property And crops at Godwin's Farm on Saturday Is frightening---as fact and metaphor: An ordinary match intended for The lighting of a pipe or kitchen fire Misused may set a whole menagerie Of flame-fanged tigers roaring hungrily. And frightening, too, that one small boy should set The sky on fire and choke the stars to heat Such skinny limbs and such a little heart Which would have been content with one warm kiss Had there been anyone to offer this.
This poem truly moved me. I am adding it to a collection of works my students will study. Great literary techniques and control of language. Very profound and emotional.
This was a very disturbing poem and I think that the end of the peom was srongly representing the weight of guilt that the boy had ever since he had killed the cat.The guilt stoed away growing and growing untill he bursts it out just like the cupboard burst from the steadily growing cat.
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i do not understand this poem can someone give me some pointer to it please