She deals with her fears in an imaginary sort of way. She faces them with a magic charm ' that she keep[s] up [her] sleeve, not in a realistic way by marching up to them and facing them with courage, for example
The author denies that she actually has any fears. Magic, the way she deals with her fears , is not real therefore I believe she is in denial of her fears
I don 't think the author is afraid of what anything in the actual poem I think that she has probably already faced and conquered these particular fears or been subjected to them at some point already in her life . This is why she does not fear them because they are not unknown
The author should not be afraid of these fears because they are mostly childhood fears
I think she strongly refused to be afraid of them because they are childish fears
If the author was actually afraid of shadows , noises , ghosts , dogs being alone , strangers , and boys , I 'd take it that she was very childish in her manners and had not been exposed to much in her life . While most children fear these things initially , they grow up and overcome those fears as they face life . I think that if the writer were to be afraid of these , she may possibly be classified in a stereotypical manner of a young girl , but certainly not a woman , especially in the twenty first century where woman ' suggest strength and power almost equal to that of man . However , girl ' still holds the stereotype of weaker frailer , and in need of being protected (from things such as fears
I do not find it interesting at all that of these things frighten the speaker . I think the speaker is trying to be convey strength , but it is such an immature strength , that it is a very weak argument
According to the fifth stanza , the speaker seems to be saying that boys are nasty brutes who pick on the girls who appear to be extremely girly The speaker probably fits in