how these themes help to convey a message to the reader 1.Anthropomorphization 2. Coming of age 3. Right and wrong 4. Conflict 5. Disgust

PLease submit each theme one at a time.

jAnthropomorphization

In this poem first Miss Walls then the speaker anthropomorphize (project human qualities onto) the frogs. Miss Walls describes the frogs in terms the children will understand, comparing them to a family with a mother, a father, and children. When the speaker then sees the frogs in the flax-dam, he believes they have come to protect and avenge their offspring. Anthropomorphization in this poem both heightens and skews the speaker's understanding of the frogs. He understands now where the frogspawn came from, and the comparison of the bullfrogs to fathers and the frogspawn to children leads him to believe that the frogs intend to hurt him. The speaker does not directly address the misguidedness of this belief, instead letting the narrative stand without any commentary from his present-day self. This allows the reader to exist in the poem as the child does: seeing the frogs not necessarily as they are in reality, but as they are within the mind of a scared, growing c