Billy Collins Poem

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This poem is about a person on the outside who is viewing the two girls as they find out about life. The first stanza drives me to think that the two girls are reading a poem together that was composed by the individual on the outside while laying in the grass on a warm summer day. I can see them understanding it, and translating it to mean something that strikes a feeling or sudden understanding inside of them. Later on it says that the girls, "have forgotten the secret" which I take to imply that they haven't really pondered about the poem since they first read it together and that the secret was all the more a childhood revelation than something no one has ever found. In the line that says , "I who don't know the secret

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