Nursery Rhymes For The Tender Hearted

1. 1.       The title for me means a little kids rhyme poem, after I read the poem the title kind of confused me because  a nursery rhyme are meant for little kids and there’s words in there that I barely understood.
   
   
   2.       I know that the speaker of the poem has a very different point of perspective for the cockroach then most of us would have.  He speaks to the roach in a very gentle or calm voice as if it’s a pet or “brother.”
   
   
   3.       In the poem the man goes to the pantry to find a midnight snack were he finds the roach crawling as well.
   
   
   4.       The speaker’s attitude towards the subject is very happy but chill with the fact that there’s a roach in his pantry. He rather sing to it then kills it or move it out the pantry. He seems to not care that it’s all over his food.
   5.       There’s really no dramatic moment other than he’s comparing humans to a cockroach. Were others would want nothing to do with the roach at all.
   
   
   6.       The memorable figurative language is that he uses imagery and personification by giving the roach human traits. Like for example “little roach” or “little soul.”
   
   
   7.       The poem rhymes and has a very song-like tone.
   8.        In the second and third stanza: “Most adventure of vermin, how I wish I could determine how you spend your hours of ease, perhaps reclining on the cheese. Cook has gone, and all is dark then the kitchen is your park: in the garbage heap that she leaves do you browse among the tea leaves?” if you can tell in these line he wondering in the roach does this and doesn’t mind if it’s all over there food.
   9.       There’s no notable shift’s except when he’s talking about the roach and then explains how there brother’s because he too does the same in the pantry night. The speaker has a whimsical, optimistic, reverent, lyrical, jovial, intimate, reflective, and quizzical tone. His whimsical tone is where he’s talking to the roach about reclining on the cheese. They add to the poem by showing how he doesn’t have a very normal opinion over the insect.
   10.   I choose it because since we went over the poem during class it was very easy to understand it. I don’t connect to the poem because I hate roaches and I don’t think I would be satisfied if I found out the roach is reclining on the cheese or letting its long antenna whisk its gentile tips across the biscuits.