Henry is a 17-year-old who works in an architect's office. He meets Edna, a 16-year-old training to be a secretary, at a train station. They strike up a conversation and continue to meet at the station. They go on outings together and decide to rent a house in a nearby village. However, Henry then receives a telegram and their plans fall through. The poem expresses the narrator's longing to be with their love through dreams when physically apart. It focuses on feelings and impressions over external events.

5. Henry- He is almost 18 years old and works in an architect's office. Edna- She is 16 years old and goes to a training college to be a secretary. Her mother Is Hungarian .

6. Plot summary At a train station, Henry looks at books and comes upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem. Then he jumps onto the train as he is late, and has left his portfolio behind. On the train, he starts talking to a girl, until she tells him she will be there again every evening. On the following Saturday, he goes to the station and sees her; they get on the train and start talking like old friends. Later, they go to a concert, and she appears somewhat distant. They walk down the streets of London and come upon a pretty village nearby. There, they visit a house and decide to rent it. Then Henry receives a telegram, and things fall apart.

8. Something Childish, but very Natural If I had but two little wings And were a little feathery bird, To you I’d fly, my dear! But thoughts like these are idle things, And I stay here. But in my sleep to you I fly: I’m always with you in my sleep! The world is all one’s own. But then one wakes, and where am I? All, all alone. Sleep stays not, though a monarch bids: So I love to wake ere break of day: For though my sleep be gone, Yet while ’tis dark, one shuts one’s lids, And still dreams on.

16. The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.

18. Why is “Something Childish but Very Natural” an Impressionistic story? It focused on the main characters’ (Henry and Edna’s) feelings or emotions, thoughts, and sensations. Most of the short story was descriptive – a description of the scene, incident, the characters’ mental life. It was described by the author from the point of view of the characters, hence, from a subjective point of view of reality.