'Why Fit In When You Born To Stand Out?'

Dr. Seuss once said, “Why fit in when you born to stand out?” With that said, poems are a unique form of writing to express words and emotions for yourself. All poems share an experience with the readers by sharing the emotions through the poem. With the emotions in the words, creating its own world that is shared in some different ways. Since themes, tones, and imagery are putting into the poem. Theme is the author’s thoughts to the topic and in poem the topic is sometimes not a point blank. Tone is the way the author’s attitude shows in the poem with the strength behind the writer’s emotions. Imagery is the painted picture behind the poem and giving another reason behind the author’s writing. In the poems, that I am analyzing for the background …show more content…
The poem expresses the how mother gets her child ready for bedtime while looking out for the monster. For example, Shipers says in the poem, “I turned on his night-light and looked for you in the closet and under the bed. I told him you were nowhere to be found, but I could smell your breath, your musty fur.” (Shipers Pg. 2 line 3). What the author is trying to say is that she looking for the monster lurking around to scare her child. Her tone in the poem the mother voice is strong and confident about protecting her child from the nightmares of monsters. The tone give the poem light and darkness to the monsters for the child and the mother doing everything to prevent the fears. In another quote, “Soon he’ll feel too old to tell me his bad dreams. If you get lonely after he’s asleep, you can always come downstairs… We can drink hot tea and talk about the future, how hard it is to be outgrown.” (Shipers Pg. 2 Line 18). In other words, the mother portrays the image of her child outgrowing the fears of the monsters and then she in the end invites the monster to have drink with her. I thought the poem was enlighten on how every mother deals with this pain of their child going through the fear of monsters. Since every child experiences fears of the monsters. The poem speaks to every mother and child in the world because of the tone and imagery that the give strength to the poem. Another in site to the poem is when the author says, “Since I became a parent I see danger everywhere.” (Shipers Pg. 2 Line 10). With this comment, she expresses her feelings towards becoming a mother and how she sees everything as a danger. The world is full of dangerous things and monsters are real to every child. Monsters serve as an anxiety that form hunts child to their adulthood and once an adult, we just remind ourselves that it’s just the wind. When Shipers

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