There Was a Child Went Forth

Many parts of the poem "There Was a Child Went Forth" stood out to me.
The part that stood out most was the very first part:

"THERE was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
Or for many years or stretching cycles of years."

This part came out to me the most because I felt like I saw my childhood when I was reading it. I remember being little and the first thing that really caught my attention in a day, stayed with me the whole day. My mom always told me that if I saw a butterfly in the morning during summer, I would stay outside all day looking for another butterfly. I relate this to how the object in the poem became a part of the child. Everyday when I was a child I had something from my day become a part of me and make me who I now am as a teenager.