Be Glad

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Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
(Jack Prelutsky)

Summary:
The poem talks about the nose and its location. It tells that its location (on the face) is the best place where you canhave your nose because if you have it between your toes, you'd be forced to smell your feet. If you have it in atop your head, you will have tickle by your hair. And if have it inside your ear, yourbrain would rattle from the breeze. So for these reasons the poet tells us that the best place where you can have your nose is between your eyes and chin.

Personal response:
Personally, I liked thepoem. For me, the poem is funny and simple because it talks about the nose (although it is not a topic that we can very often find in poetry). It is something that we see every day; for example when wesee ourselves in the mirror, or when we see others people.

In addition to the simplicity of the theme, we have the way in which the author refers to the nose because he locates it in differentparts of the body, which was very funny to imagine.

The language is a bit poor because it doesn`t have figures of speech (at least I could not find them). Despite that, the poem has many rhyme; forexample: face/place, not/lot, nose/toes, treat/feet. This does that the poem sounds in a nice way. 

The subject is the nose and the theme is that the nose have to be on the face (between your eyesand chin). But I think that the real meaning of the poem is that everybody and everything has a place in the world; for example: a thing as simple as a nose, the bed. Can you imagine if the bed is usedin a vertical way? It would be a useless thing. Other thing that I can give like an example is me because a have a place in the university and in my house.

Vocabulary:
-Sandwiched: If you aresandwiched between two people or things, you are in a small space between them.
-Treat: a special and enjoyable occasion or experience.
-Dread: to feel extremely worried or frightened about something...