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I chose to use “Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face” by Jack Prelutskybecause of its simply derived meaning. Jack Prelutsky uses humor and silliness to convey the theme, Be Grateful. In the poem the speaker tells the reader to be glad their nose is on their face because if it were somewhere else they wouldn’t be very happy. It gives examples of places where having a nose wouldn’t be too blissful such as, “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.” This could be a metaphor for a lot of things in life, imagine if you didn’t have something that you take for granted, and it was completely different, well then your life would also be completely different. I enjoyed this poem’s humor and meaning and it was easily understood.   I chose to analyze “My House” by Nikki Giovanni because the poem in my eyes made absolutely no sense. As I read, it just looked like stanzas of random thought no meaning or theme or simple idea, but a paper filled with randomness. Also through-out the poem she repeats things worded differently so that it’s a jumble of confusion for example “I only want to be there to kiss you as you want to be kissed when you need to be kissed where I want to kiss you cause it’s my house and I plan to live in it”. Also another example “I really need to hug you when I want to hug you as you like to hug me does this sound like a silly poem?” The poem shows randomness through some of the stanzas skipping from idea to idea for example “I mean it’s my house and I want to fry pork chops and bake sweet potatoes and call them yams cause I run the kitchen and I can stand the heat”, to the idea of “and I still like men in tight pants cause everybody has something to give and more important something to take”. I don’t understand at all what they have to do with each other. I read the poem over and over because I love this poem, its flow and some of the lines but I couldn’t...