Collins is describing growing up in the poem, he is showing that growing up is a horrible thing for a kid because they lose their youthfulness and the imagination that makes childhood a great thing. Growing up makes you lose the views of the world that make it a wonderful and amazing thing, and you start to see the things that are wrong with the world shown by him saying "If you cut me I could shine.
But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed". Collins captures childhood in the way of what the child pretended to be each year being different things and just having fun. The effectiveness of the poem comes from how relateable the childhood is to many of our own. This childhood fits many children that I grew up with it fits mine as well.
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