how can you summarize the poem AMANDA ?

Amanda is a school going girl, who must be about 910 years old. The things that her mother scolds her for are all typical instructions given to a 9 or10 year old girl.

In stanzas 2, 4 and 6, the speaker is the child. No, she is not listening to her mother who is the speaker in stanzas 1, 3 and 5. She is lost in her thoughts and she is clearly not listening to her mother.

she wants to be alone. She wants to roam around in the street alone and pattern dust wit her bare feet. She finds silence golden and freedom sweet. It is for this reason that she calls herself an orphan.

The girl yearns for solitude and peace. In all the things she dreams of, she wants to stay alone. If she were a mermaid, then she wanted to drift slowly on a calm sea where she would be the only inhabitant. She even goes on to imagine if she were an orphan. In that case, she would roam about the street in silence and freedom. She also wishes to be Rapunzel though she would not let her hair down for anybody to climb up. This shows that she is fed up of the continuous scolding she receives from her mother. She wants to go away from her home to some place where she would not be constantly nagged and would be able to live peacefully.

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