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 …showed first 75 words of 646 total…

…showed last 75 words of 646 total…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!:)