The Stolen Child

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"The Stolen Child" has many similarities with "Cat's in the Cradle" which includes the repetition of a stanza. Yeats states "Come away, O human child! To the water and the wild with a faery, hand and hand, for for the world more full of weeping than you can understand"(Yeats, 1). Chapin sings "And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon, 'when you coming home dad?' 'I don't know when, but we'll get together then, you know we'll have a good time then.'" (Chapin, 2). The repetition of these stanzas throughout the poem and the song add meaning to it. As the stanzas repeat it stimulates the reader mind and makes them wonder why the author would repeat the stanza and how it connects to the story. This similarity is what connects the poem and …show more content…
Yeats states "Come away, O human child! To the water and the wild with a faery, hand and hand, for for the world more full of weeping than you can understand"(Yeats, 1). Chapin sings "And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon, 'when you coming home dad?' 'I don't know when, but we'll get together then, you know we'll have a good time then.'" (Chapin, 2). These are the last stanzas of the song and poem. "The Stolen Child" has an ending that leaves the readers pondering about unanswered questions like "Was the faery good or bad" and "Why and where was the boy taken". These questions in addition to the older writing style present a mysterious atmosphere. However with "Cat's in the Cradle" the events leading to the ending is clear and doesn't leave unanswered questions as in "The Stolen Child". "Cat's in the Cradle" also features modernized vocabulary which makes it more easy to understand with people of this time and

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