Childhood is the Kingdom...

Childhood Is The Kingdom… In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies,” she wrote of the outcome of a death of a loved one is to child. In Millay’s poem she writes of a person who has lost their mother. Edna explains through the poem that to a child death is almost non-existent to them, “Nobody that matters, that is.” When you are young, death does not seem …

…Millay’s poem left its reader feeling pity for the speaker. Losing a parent is not easy to accept, more so for a child. The child in this poem did “grow-up,” but growing up did not stop them from having psychological affects on them. Once the parents of a child dies, the “child” in them also dies along with its mother and father, and are forced to grow up. Submited by: Hollie-Joy Segundo (you welcome!:)