Boy and Egg

Thomas Fox

Me. Guarino 

B period 

Literature 

In the poem Boy and Egg I interpreted it as a story of a young boy entertaining himself in his own ways when other children would not include him in certain things, like the games they would play. It also showed how the small boy really wanted to play with the bigger kids. The emotion in this story is sadness and loneliness, some lines in this poem that lead me to believe this includes the line “while the other children laughed and ran with a ball, leaving him”. As you read this line it makes you wonder why this young man was excluded from the games that the other kids were playing. Most likely for not a good reason. The next line explains “so little, to forgetful in games, ready to cry if the ball brushed him”. Even though these are reasons that he was not allowed to play in the game they are not valid because all of them are not important to having fun and even if he wasn’t as good as the other kids or so much smaller than them he can still be included in these and have just as much fun just happy to be there. Something that stands out to me while reading this is how the boy himself in this story is very positive about this topic and he just finds different ways to find happiness without the kids that excluded him. In this case he goes to the chickens collecting the eggs that they lay. Showing us that even little things such as a chickens egg has its own long story to go with it. Some questions that I would like to ask the poet are first, is this poem about him in his childhood and if so how did the chickens that he grew up with shape him to the person that he is now. Or if the poem was not about him in his childhood, how did he come up with this idea of a boy and an egg. Another thing I would ask the author is if I interpreted the poem the way that he meant it to be interpreted because as I read this poem the first few times I had a very different perspective on it than I do now and other people may think of the story at a different angle for example.