In the poem I love, Shel Silverstein writes from the perspective of an imaginary girl\u00a0who is more than a little reluctant to go to school. She is telling all of these\u00a0reasons why she is unable to attend school (the measles, the mumps, and the\u00a0chicken pox). She would rather stay home in bed than go to school, but then\u00a0she is told that it is Saturday, and her perspective changes completely. She\u00a0magically loses all of her dreadful symptoms and leaves to go out and play.<\/p>\n
I have always enjoyed this poem as it does not only remind me of myself as a\u00a0child so much but highlights the way that adults think as well. No one is ever enthusiastic\u00a0to get out of their comfy beds in the morning, but it is\u00a0necessary to get everything in life done. I felt that the humour of the poem\u00a0could be understood very easily as the theme plays upon a very common\u00a0childhood stunt. Virtually every child attempts to convince his parents that he\u00a0is too sick to go to school at least once or even invents symptoms as Peggy Ann does by claiming her belly button is “caving in”.<\/p>\n
In addition, I have chosen this poem as it has simple rhyme patterns of\u00a0AABBCCDD. As you can see, each sentence\u00a0rhymes\u00a0to the next one as if\u00a0they are in pairs (mumps and bumps, dry and eye, rocks and pox).<\/p>\n
I am sure you will love this poem just like how I did after reading it!<\/p>\n
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Sick<\/span>
\nby Shel Silverstein<\/p>\n\u201cI cannot go to school today,”
\nSaid little Peggy Ann McKay.
\n\u201cI have the measles and the mumps,
\nA gash, a rash and purple bumps.
\nMy mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
\nI\u2019m going blind in my right eye.
\nMy tonsils are as big as rocks,
\nI\u2019ve counted sixteen chicken pox
\nAnd there\u2019s one more– that\u2019s seventeen,
\nAnd don\u2019t you think my face looks green?
\nMy leg is cut– my eyes are blue–
\nIt might be instamatic flu.
\nI cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
\nI\u2019m sure that my left leg is broke–
\nMy hip hurts when I move my chin,
\nMy belly button\u2019s caving in,
\nMy back is wrenched, my ankle\u2019s sprained,
\nMy \u2018pendix pains each time it rains.
\nMy nose is cold, my toes are numb.
\nI have a sliver in my thumb.
\nMy neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
\nI hardly whisper when I speak.
\nMy tongue is filling up my mouth,
\nI think my hair is falling out.
\nMy elbow\u2019s bent, my spine ain\u2019t straight,
\nMy temperature is one-o- eight.
\nMy brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
\nThere is a hole inside my ear.
\nI have a hangnail, and my heart is– what?
\nWhat\u2019s that? What\u2019s that you say?
\nYou say today is\u2026Saturday?
\nG\u2019bye, I\u2019m going out to play!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the poem I love, Shel Silverstein writes from the perspective of an imaginary girl\u00a0who is more than a little reluctant to go to school. She is telling all of these\u00a0reasons why she is unable to attend school (the measles, the mumps, and the\u00a0chicken pox). She would rather stay home in bed than go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12381,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/12381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}