Peotry

Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky

Be glad your nose is on your face,

not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.

Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.

Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.

Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.

Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place--
be glad your nose is on your face!

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Figurative Language can be split into these forms:

Simile: None in the poem
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Metaphor: None in the poem
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Personification: "Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,"

A nose would certainly not go through thick and thin and the poet write it this way as to express that the nose would stay on your face forever.

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Hyberbole: "Within your ear, your nose would be

an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze."

Even if your nose is in your ear and you sneeze, your brain will certainly not rattle and it will not be a catastrophe as the "rattling" would only last for a little amount of time. This is exaggeration but the poet choose to write it this way to show how fortunate are we to have our nose on our face.

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Reason why I like this poem:

I think that the main purpose of the poet writing this poem is to tell us about how fortunate are we to have our nose on our face. He also tries to explain that we must be satisfied that there are many other things in life that we have and that we must be satisfied with what we have and not be still unsatisfied. This is telling the readers to not take things for granted. This is also tell the readers to treasure whatever ever they have.

World Book Day

World Book Day is recognised by over 100 countries around the world. It will be celebrated on 4th March 2010 and its purpose is to encourage reading and a love of books in children. I feel that World Book Day is indeed a good event as it reminds people that books are good for child and adults both alike and it can encourage us to read more books, thus gaining more knowledge from books and not only from teacher. Without books, life might be meaningless for some of us as there would be nothing to do except for reading during free times.