Billy Collins is trying to tell the reader that having a birthday is one of the most exciting times of a child’s life. The boy in the poem is turning ten and is now getting away from his childhood beliefs. As he turns ten he looks back on his life and reflects on how he used to play as a pirate and pretend he was a prince. As a child gets older they tend to part ways with what they used to believe and start to think like an older kid and do things older kids would do. Collins captures childhood by saying how kids have vivid imaginations. He writes how kids pretend they are a pirate sailing the seven seas, or a prince from the land of dragons. He makes this poem effective by stating examples from a child’s childhood.
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