What message does the poet want to give through the poem – 'Amanda'?

Answer – This poem is about the views of a girl named Amanda about freedom of her life. She is instructed every time. Her parents instruct her not to bite her nails, not to hunch her shoulders. site straight. She wants freedom and wishes to draft in the sea like mermaid. The speaker asks her if she has done her homework, cleaned her room and shoes. Amanda wishes that she should be an orphan roaming freely in the streets. Little Amanda does not like restrictions. She imagines being Rapunzel and promises not to lower her hair, so that nobody will disturb her peaceful solitude.