Sec2 Lessons Review

Messy Room by Shel Silverstein

Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--
Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!

My thoughts on this poem

I think that this poem is a masterpiece as Shel Silverstein manage to use simple language to convey a deep, profound meaning about human character through this poem, which also called as 'tongue-in-cheek' humour.

This poem is rather humorous as the poet is just scolding and blaming himself at all, which he doesn't realize at first. The poet starts from blaming others for making their room so messy that there are even lizard on the bed, shows that the room is almost not a human habitation. However, in fact that the room was his and he is the one who make this room this messy, shows that the room is too messy that he doesn't think that the room belong to him. This poem is humorous by showing how clumsy and irresponsible the poet is.

This poem highlighted that human always take no responsible of their things and when they see mistakes, their finger will always point at other people first instead of think carefully, ' is it my fault?' The poem show these two aspects of human character by showing that the poet makes his home too messy that he cannot even remember that the room is his, and he started blaming others when he saw how messy the room was, but actually he is blaming himself instead.



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