Poetry At Its Finest

The poems, “ As I grew older” by Langston Hughes, “ Turning Ten” by Billy Collins

and “ Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, all have one thing in common that is the concept of age.

In all of these poems the authors are trying to prove their points about aging, even though

some may be different. Also, what they think age is and how they felt about it.

“As I grew older” is mainly about that oppression shouldn’t be tolerated. He

only began to accept this after he got older and his dream began to be put down or blocked

with age. It showed that as he grew older his dream began to whither away. Th...