Ann Sexton, "The Fury of Overshoes" What's about?

In Anne Sexton's poem "The Fury of the Overshoes" she is
expressing the turbulent world of the child growing up. The child, young (perhaps 4-6 given the
reference to kindergarten), is looking at the world from, none other, than the perspective that a
child would.

The poem is meant to explain how a child looks at the
world. Always feeling too little, too weak, too fearful. It examines the fears, the successes,
and the disappointments a child recognizes in their lives.

Perhaps
what Sexton is trying to do in the poem is provide adults with a common point-of-view which they
have obviously forgotten based upon their own

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giant steps
all day,
each day

and thinking
nothing of
it.

Children, instead, contemplate
things that adults typically ignore. Her desire is for adults to put on the overshoes of children
so that they can "walk a mile in their shoes."