Let us try to analyse this new poem which is among the new poems,short stories and drama for Forms 1-3 students beginning 2010. This is a poem written by Jeannie Kirby.
I Wonder
I wonder why the grass is so green,
And why the wind is never seen?
Who taught the birds to build a nest,
And told the trees to take a rest?
O,when the moon is not quite round
Where can the missing bit be found?
Who lights the stars, when they blow out,
And makes the lightning flash about?
Who paints the rainbow in the sky,
And hangs the fluffy clouds so high?
Why is it now you suppose,
That dad won't tell me, if he knows?
The poem frames a set of questions that a child may ask of his parents. An observant child has a way of interpreting things according to his understanding of things. The manner is at once simple and yet profound.
There are six stanza and each stanza has a couplet.
The questions asked by the child reflect genuine innocence. However, it is clothed in so much active imagery and in a methodological way,seeks answers and meaning to the mystery of nature.
In questioning mode, the child asks about colour, visibility,instinct,heavenly bodies and natural phenomena.
The interesting part of the poem is in the last stanza whereby they child is asking the 'mother-lode' question as to why his parents do not want to tell her the answers to the mysteries of nature. It is a naivety that is expected. After all, many parents would surely be hard-pressed to give correct answers to these simple questions when they themselves may not know after all.
The poem is imaginative,crisp and colourful and is reminiscent of the stage of sweet innocence every child will go through in childhood as they wonder about the world around them.
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