By Jack Joseph Smith
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Childhood turning and old-fashioned travel give way to the world's treat and the loss of another's imagination, while realism is named as something too important to miss.
Being ten holds open the possibility of turning around, but that freedom is immediately crossed by someone else's diminishing imagination. The old-fashioned trip is dismissed, yet going "the world's way" still arrives as a treat, which gives the poem a strange mix of surrender and appetite. The closing lines suggest that realism is always invoked as importance, even when it narrows what can be imagined.
At ten he could turn around; 'lose your immagination, forget about taking an old fashion trip.' He did not walk away; 'it was a treat to go the world's way.' You can't miss important when you mention realistic.