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Michael Rosen

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��About the poet:��

  • Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children’s novelist, poet, and the author of 140 books.

•He served as Children’s laureate from June 2007 to June 2009.

•He has been a TV presenter and a political columnist.

•He was born in 1946 and lives in UK.

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��About the poem:��

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•The poet, Michael Rosen, has talked about the dominating behaviour of the grown-ups, the elders.

•According to the poet, the grown-ups instruct us in every way possible, from telling us to stay quiet and minding our language, they instruct ceaselessly.

•The poet takes a satirical tone at the end of the poem and speaks about the importance of freedom, self-dependence and interrogates about the need of being instructed by the grown-ups.

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��Poetic Devices used:��

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•Alliteration: Don’t drag, Stand up straight

•Anaphora:

Don’t talk with your mouth full

Don’t stare

Don’t point

Don’t pick your nose