"The Stolen Child" by W.B Yeats and "Cats and the Cradle" by Harry Chapin both explore the concept of loss of childhood innocence. Yeast's poem tells the story of a fairy tempting a child to escape the "weeping" of his human world while Chapin's song recounts the experience of the distant relationship between father and son. Although both poems share similarities, one of them is the most important.

Both pieces explore the concept of similarities. William Butler Yeats states " to the waters and the wild". Here Yeats states when the faeries attract the child away from home. This quote is luring the child with them by saying that he can be wild and do whatever he would like to do. The child may think its cool because he will not be told anything