The Pull Toy By: 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 http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_stallings2.php http://www.thehypertexts.com/a.%20e.%20(alicia)%20stallings%20poet%20p oetry%20picture%20bio.htm

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

Figurative Meaning Literal Meaning This 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 Meaning I 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.

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