London
by: William Blake

" In every cry of every man, in every infants cry of fear, in every voice, in everyban the mind forg'd manacles i hear"

These lines are about how in the crys that the writer hears his realizes that they are trapped by themselves and cannot do anything to help them become free. All of the bad thoughts that they were thinking would come together as in oneself. as the writer hears the crys he is imagining evrything that could be happening but might not be happening.

The writer is saying that when you hear these people crying all you think is what is happening, is someone hurt? When you hear someone cry you dont know if someone is hurt or not but thats all you think. The writer is imagining all of the bad in the world even if it isnt necessarily happening right now.

Derelict is the vocabulary word i chose because it means abandoned and in this poem the children are abandoned.

Pushing Back
By: David Lee Garrison

"A girl about my age rode a tricycle on the sidewalk pedaling barefoot with her head down, singing as her thin legs pump and the concrete go by"

This part of the poem means that out of everything that the little boy and his father encountered, this is the one thing that he remembered. He probably felt that she was happy just in singing and riding her bike, there was nothing else that she needed to make her happy just her bike.

He also probably thought that this was special for the culture that she was. I also think that this is the only thing he remembered from the trip because it is really the only thing he can relate to. On their trip they went to many places and they saw many things, some were educational and some were fun.

They went to many museums and learned many things but i dont think he understood the museums very well. I think he got confused on what he saw because its too adult for him. Although he didnt understand the museums he really understood the little girl riding her tricycle because he can picture himself doing the same thing right at that time.