Unseen poetry- Words: a) How do you think the child in the poem feels about trying to understand and use words? b) How does the post use language and other techniques to show these feelings?

The young kid is telling us all the words he gets called when he gets bullied. Words are a hurtful thing and it always “makes him cry”. One of his quotations was, “I’m seven and I’m dead bright, but words give me a fright.” He is saying it in rhytmictic way and a little kid at the age of seven will always express these feelings and he always thinks that it will never stop happening and will always have words “Shoved in his face”.

One of his quotations was, “I wish words were things you could hug.” This quotation is used as a personification and it means when he hugs the words he won’t be offended by it and he’ll be protected so the words won’t hurt which is used as a metaphor and in that quotation there is illiteration as it says, “wish words were”. Another quotation was, “Words are mean. They bully me, lock me away from what i want to say.” It is like he’s saying he is being forced into prison and doesn’t have the right to say anything to the judge and is being punished for nothing he has done to anyone and he “can’t ask anyone for help” because everyone is bullying him and won’t talk to him.