• The exciting nature of "Among School Children" stems from the poem’s growth from an apparent lack of position, to the ultimate question: What is life worth once someone has grown old?
• It is a comprehensive poem, dealing with the great Greek philosophers, views on men and women, passion, piety and affection, and the organic and human worlds.
• It compares the physical body to the imaginative soul: the bitterness and the exhaustion of the biological is contrasted to the constant brightening of the human imagination.

• Ending commentary by Harvard student Jessica Kahan.