Welcome To The Night Analysis

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Angela, In response to your question for chapter five of Essentials, I found two poems that I loved, so I hope you don't mind if I evaluate both in response to your question. Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night, as well as The New Kid on the Block, both present an impressive collection of poems that use different ideas and concepts as a way to appeal to readers. Of these, two of my favorite poems I stumbled upon while reading were Welcome to the Night on page 6 of Dark Emperor, and My Sister Is a Sissy located on page 138 of The New Kid on the Block. Looking at the criteria for evaluating poems for use with children, I have included my observations below. Are the ideas expressed in authentic, fresh, and imaginative ways? Welcome to the …show more content…

There is the typical stereotype that girls are afraid of bugs and creepy crawly things, so while this poem puts that into a comical light, it is not presenting something new and exciting to the readers. Is the expression of the ideas and feeling uniques in order to encourage readers to perceive things in new ways? Welcome to the Night: Yes, one of my favorite things about this poem is that it seems like it is from the viewpoint of an animal or perhaps nature. Not only that but on the page following the poem, there is an informational text that contributes to the depth of the poem. It does so by adding context such as exactly what type of creatures are crawling about at dusk as the poem iterates. My Sister Is a Sissy: Yes and No, reading through this collection of poems, to me the ideas are not extremely unique. However, from a child's perspective, the expressions and reactions to different situations in each poem are uniquely different and appealing to children. Is the poem appropriate to the experiences of children without preaching to …show more content…

However, the way the poem is presented provides more of a welcoming inquisitive feel rather than preaching. For example, Welcome to the Night does not say “The owls hoot, the raccoons crawl, the bugs buzz” which would give more of an overbearing preaching tone. Rather, it says “To all of you who crawl and creep” making the poem more encompassing of all animals and allows children to imagine all the animals included in this rather than just being

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