With Growth, the reader follows the evolution of a person through phases of his life. From a teenager/young man who lost his father when he was 12 to a middle-aged man with some wear and tear. He didn't fully know how to show his feelings. To this day as an older man, the author still doesn't always know how to show his feelings. But poetry is an outlet, a sort of safety valve. The level of sophistication from Immaturity increases in style and substance in what follows through further Maturing and Continued Maturation