Friday, January 14, 2011

2011 Blog Post 2 - Answers to Shel Silverstein's Poems

Poem 1 - The Little Boy and the Old Man

1: The underlying message that is being conveyed in this poem is that matured adults do not pay enough attention to children and the elderly because they feel that they are troublesome. Children and elderly should receive more care and attention from adults.

2: He uses repetition of words, rhymes and assonance.

Poem 2 - Messy Room

1: Yes. The poet critises the owner of the room, stating how messy the room is and the owner of it should be ashamed of himself. However, at the end of the poem, he realised that he was the owner of the messy room, and he had been insulting himself all along!

2: Criticism of others, not reflecting upon oneself.

Poem 3 - Cloony The Clown

1: When Cloony tried to be funny and make the audience laugh, they did not laugh but instead felt that he was boring and they did not like what he did. However, when he tried to tell them how he felt to make them symphatise him, they laughed instead.

2: Yes, it conveys sadistic people.

3: He uses repetition, rhymes and assonance.

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