![]() Just like artists effortlessly pick and mix colour on a canvas to create something beautiful, so do poets. It is very fun to read, the imagery makes you laugh all while making the reader feel good and with a newfound resolve to enjoy life more.Here we look at the way seven writers share, reveal and teach us about mental health through their poetry He manages to teach a very important lesson is a funny way that can relate to both children and adults. Shel Silverstein’s “Growing Down” is written very simple in language and form. This part of it makes it very appealing to adults. The poem also contains a lot of irony, it shows the huge difference between the way adults and the way children act. This is the perfect type of poem for children to read on their own or to be read aloud to even very young children. This helps to give the poem a very happy and upbeat feel to it. The simple structure of this poem can make the reader read it quickly. The first stanza starts almost every line with “Why can’t…” or “Why must…” or “Why do…” The second stanza begins each line with “Why don’t you…” The third stanza varies a little. The poem is written for children and uses very simple vocabulary, single syllables and with the rhyming words above and below each other which makes it very easy to read. The poem has three long stanzas with each stanza longer than the one before it. This poem is an example of rhyming poetry. In the end he is converted and he is “Shouting to all the folks in town. This shows how much fun he is having and he is taking it much further than the kids even suggested. Brown, and there are 36 lines of the silly things Mr. Brown is asking the kids to do, there are 27 lines of what the kids suggest to Mr. There are 11 lines of text in the poem of things Mr. ![]() The poem gives the impression that the main character has really taken to heart that he should change. It gives crazy and exaggerated images of growing down that will make the reader laugh. The poem is very light hearted and silly. However, like all his poems he tells it with humour. This is a very serious message that Silverstein is trying to teach. They will be much happier for it and most importantly will their children. It should more specifically tell parents to spend more time being silly with their children. Let the everyday stresses and expectations of life slide sometimes and just enjoy the moment. And to go further adults should try to act more like children once in a while and not let everything bother them. ![]() Adults should not try to make them grow up too fast and should just let them be. It reminds adults of what it means to be children and that children should enjoy themselves as they are. This poem seems to be more geared toward teaching adults a lesson more than children. This poem explores the theme further by showing the innocence of youth and for adults to return to that innocence. It has the common theme of many of Silverstein’s poems of adult versus child in the child’s point of view. The message or lesson that this poem is trying to teach is very clear. Brown is enjoying around town it seems to be summer time. When reading the poem you feel like it takes place in present time, in an idyllic small town where everyone knows each other. “He started making weirdie faces,” and “He rolled down hills, he climbed up trees.” In the end he realizes that “It’s much more fun, this growin’ down.” Brown, realizing his crabbiness decides to listen to the children and grow down. Brown, the crabbiest man in our whole darn town.” They call him “Grow-Up Brown” because he is always telling them to “Grow up, grow up, oh grow up.” He asks them a long list of questions like “Why must you shout and fuss and fight?” or “Why can’t you keep dirt off your clothes?” But one day the children tell the reader that they reply to him “Hey, why don’t you try growing down?” and they ask him twice as many questions like “Why don’t you jump and yell and scream?” and ”Why don’t you not wash your hands?” Mr. The poem is told by children describing “old Mr. The poem “Growing Down,” one of the longer poems in the collection Every Thing On It, is one of those poems. There are some longer ones that try to send a message. Many of Silverstein’s poems are very short and funny.
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