Is independent thinking a step towards …

The theme of the poem, “Childhood” focuses on the loss of innocence. Markus Natten, the poet wonders when and where he lost his childhood. The process of being grown up develops the critical thinking and analytical point of view in the person which ushers the "adulthood". It makes the person rationalized and abled to take his decision by virtue of his seat of reasoning.

The poet ponders over the question of loss of childhood and highlights the loss of innocence and faith in the quest of growing up. Adolescence or childhood is a puzzling time when a child is unable to settle with the physical, psychological and other changes in his personality. He becomes a ‘young adult’; he neither wants to call himself a child nor is he completely an adult. He finally finds his answers that he lost his childhood to some forgotten place and that his childhood has become a memory.