THE PULL TOYBy: A. E. Stallings

The Pull Toy By A. E. Stallings

You squeezed its leash in your fist,

It followed where you led:

Tick, tock, tick, tock,

Nodding its wooden head.

Wagging a tail on a spring,

Its wheels gearing lackety-clack,

Dogging your heels the length of the house,

Though you seldom glanced back.

It didn’t mind being dragged

When it toppled on its side

Scraping its coat of primary colors:

Love has no pride.

But now that you run and climb

And leap, it has no hope

Of keeping up, so it sits, hunched

At the end of its short rope

And dreams of a rummage sale

Where it’s snapped up for a song,

And of somebody—somebody just like you—

Stringing it along.

ALL ABOUT A.E. STALLINGS• Her real name is Alicia Stallings• She has Published 3 books

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFO• She is obviously a poet• She's also a translator that mines the classical world with traditional

poetic techniques.• She is trained in classical Latin, and Greek, with a very wide knowledge of

Greco-Roman literature

AUTHORS PURPOSE The purpose of this poem, is that even a pull toy needs to be taken care of. Regardless of whether it was .50$ or 50$. It will keep up when you are walking on a flat surface, but eventually it will fall over scraping off its paint

LITERAL MEANINGThis story is about simply a little kid, dragging a Pull Toy around, and then eventually gets tired of it. So he puts it on the shelf till there next garage sale, or something of the sort.

Figurative MeaningI think the author of this poem is trying to say that kids play with new toys, until they aren’t new anymore and then don’t want anything to do with them anymore.

IMAGERY

SPEAKERThe speaker of this text is a narrator at first, but then it becomes 3rd person, and the pull toy starts talking.