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We Remember Your Childhood Well By Carol Ann Duffy

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We remember your childhood well How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? In literature, there isn’t any literary piece that is interpreted exactly identically by different readers. The interpretation usually is based on the context of in what way the reader reads the poem (literature piece). Readers usually base their interpretation of the poem depending on the message of the poem that is related to the context that they are reading the poem. This text can be easily be interpreted differently by two different readers as it includes two different voices within the poem. One is a person that doesn’t remember the past more specifically their childhood, however the other voice is one of the parents who claims that they do indeed remember her childhood quite clearly. …show more content…

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