And thinking that Stafford’s age which is fifteen years, like us all, we are heading north, then he’s in for a change a bridge in the future. Points where the road which below is much less stable, where there aren’t miles of solid ground below.Ĭhanges are things that you have to get over. Changes are like bridges, connections between one p of life and the next. Stafford’s character is south, not necessarily heading south, but he is south in relation to the bridge. ” If one were to assume that we as people, traveled metaphorically in any direction I would think it to be north for example: “Up” for all different purposes. ” To begin his poem Stafford gives us a location, “South of the Bridge on Seventeenth. The cycle is abandoned, “engine running as it lay on its side, ticking over slowly in the high grass. He describes a motorcycle below a bridge. In the first stanza William Stafford stops realization. The author in his poem describes the ideas and temptations that a fifteen year old would have, and it gives us a message of how when you are blinded of your teenage dreams, at the same time to take and decide the correct paths and decisions.
The poem Fifteen by William Stafford, describes the ideas of a young teenager and imaginations when he sees a motorcycle at the side of the rail, It tells us of how the main character gets familiar with adulthood and starts getting mature, it gives us changes.
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