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🧒 We chose the child emoji because he was reflecting and cherishing his imagination while he was a kid. In stanza 5, the speaker states, It seem only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing but light under my skin." (Collins,5) In this quote he is also reflecting his childhood imagination

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🧙🏻: we utilized this emoji because it emphasizes how at a young at he felt powerful like a wizard. This line shares a metaphor comparing his younger life to an "Arabian wizard". In stanza 2 the author gives the reader a flashback from his childhood " At for I was an Arabian wizard. I could make a myself invisible" In this the author uses imagery to take the reader back to his childhood to reflect n how much easier and simpler was life

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🧙

This shows that the speaker reflects on his childhood by highlighting how he misses being a kid and remissness being a child.

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Khoriyah

🧙‍♂️: We picked this emoji because it reflects how the speaker feels by praising his childhood and the memories it holds. We can also see another example of this in the same stanza where he states, "At seven I was a soldier, at nine a prince." Furthermore this highlights how much he values the memories of his childhood and doesn't want to let them go.

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Joseph-

We picked the 🫥 emoji because Collins thinks back to his childhood, utilizing a flashback as well as conveying an underlying message in the phrase "I could make myself invisible." (Collins 2). That can be taken 2 ways, sure he could pretend to be invisible, but also as a child you go unseen and carefree, doing whatever you desire, but as you age your accomplishments and failures become more apparent making things extremely stressful as he relishes the feeling of a carefree childhood. This show that as a child he could do or be whatever he wanted to be, and the magic of being filled with wonder and joy as a child, praising these moments.

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🦸🏽We chose this emoji because it expresses how he feels about his childhood. IN line 13 he uses a metaphor to express how he feels about his childhood.

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🤒 We chose this emoji because the idea of growing up makes him feel uneasy. In stanza 1 Collins utilizes listing examples to show how he felt about growing up.

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We picked the emoji 🤒 because the speaker is expressing how he feels sick and uncomfortable . This shows that as the speaker reflects on growing up because he feels like getting older makes him sick.

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🤢 We chose this emoji, because Collins explains how he mourns the journey of growing up and the effects that come with it. This makes him feel sick with his use of figurative language. Another quote that emphasizes his feelings is, "Measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul" (Collins, 1) This listing examples which highlights the severity of this awful feeling.

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We picked the 🤢 emoji because the speaker describes how growing up causes him to feel sick to his stomach. This can be because he cherishes his childhood and does not want to let it go

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😮‍💨 : We used this emoji because it expresses his exhaustion and sadness. It reveals that the author doesn't want to grow up and the thought of that and leaving his childhood behind makes him sick.

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🤢

We picked the nauseated emoji because, the emoji represents how he feels about getting older and the effects that come along with growing up.