The person... by Lauren Phang and Alex Mansfield
The person you called four eyes yesterday is smashing their glasses.
The person you called ginger the other day is now secretly dyeing their hair.
The person you called fat last week won’t eat their food.
The person you punched yesterday is now covered in bruises.
The person you kicked the other day is now on crutches.
The person you pushed over last week now has their arm in a sling.
The person you sent a threatening text to yesterday is now deleting all their contacts.
The person you sent an abusive email to the other day is now destroying their computer.
The person you left a racist voice mail for last week is now trying to change themselves.
The person you have been bullying for the last couple of years has just now tried to commit suicide and is now in a mental hospital with critical injuries...
It doesn’t cost to BE a bully but it DOES to be a victim.
The person you called ginger the other day is now secretly dyeing their hair.
The person you called fat last week won’t eat their food.
The person you punched yesterday is now covered in bruises.
The person you kicked the other day is now on crutches.
The person you pushed over last week now has their arm in a sling.
The person you sent a threatening text to yesterday is now deleting all their contacts.
The person you sent an abusive email to the other day is now destroying their computer.
The person you left a racist voice mail for last week is now trying to change themselves.
The person you have been bullying for the last couple of years has just now tried to commit suicide and is now in a mental hospital with critical injuries...
It doesn’t cost to BE a bully but it DOES to be a victim.
This poem is by Lauren Phang and Alex Mansfield, these two are students in at Newton primary school in Gosport, England. Gosport is a small town on the southern coast of England.
I know this is a reliable source because these students with this poem were one of the winners of the anti-bulling poetry contest of 2012. This is reliable because it is an annual contest with many different categories and a chance to have you work published.
I choose this poem because it talks mostly about the extremely negative repercussions bullying has on the victim. Bullies normally only see what they did shortly after they don’t care what happens to them after that, and why would they. If you are beating up a kid you are not going to worry how it affects them. This poem really emphasizes how names can hurt more than sticks and stones. One comment can change how you feel about your self, which is why bullying is such an issue. Teenagers usually have really low self esteem and already have problems that contribute to it. Bullying can lower peoples self esteem even more and make them feel so bad about themselves it can drive them to suicide. This poem is all about how comments and actions can change the way kids view themselves and how it affects their self-esteem, it defiantly fits in my topic.
This poem takes the form of free verse. Free verse allows the author complete freedom without and restrictions which fits very well with this poem. This poem is trying to make its point so having no restrictions and being able to say what it want and how it wants to say it make this poem very effective. I really dislike free verse poems because they have no flow or rhythm but the same intro words make up for this. Also having the last line start differently makes the last line stand out and be more powerful.
This poem uses a few rhetorical devices to make it more effective, few examples are;
The whole poem is an example of enumeration, because it makes all of its points in specific detail.
The whole poem is an example of amplification. Amplification is the repeated use of a word or phrase, which this poem does in that every line except the very last one begins with “The person who”. This allows the poem to have so flows and rhythm.
The whole poem is also an example of an antithesis. An antithesis is when the author makes a connection between two things. In this poem the author makes a connection between what the bully did and what the people impacted are doing or how they were affected.
Each one of these devices really helps the poem by doing different things that each make the poem more effective and flow better.
I know this is a reliable source because these students with this poem were one of the winners of the anti-bulling poetry contest of 2012. This is reliable because it is an annual contest with many different categories and a chance to have you work published.
I choose this poem because it talks mostly about the extremely negative repercussions bullying has on the victim. Bullies normally only see what they did shortly after they don’t care what happens to them after that, and why would they. If you are beating up a kid you are not going to worry how it affects them. This poem really emphasizes how names can hurt more than sticks and stones. One comment can change how you feel about your self, which is why bullying is such an issue. Teenagers usually have really low self esteem and already have problems that contribute to it. Bullying can lower peoples self esteem even more and make them feel so bad about themselves it can drive them to suicide. This poem is all about how comments and actions can change the way kids view themselves and how it affects their self-esteem, it defiantly fits in my topic.
This poem takes the form of free verse. Free verse allows the author complete freedom without and restrictions which fits very well with this poem. This poem is trying to make its point so having no restrictions and being able to say what it want and how it wants to say it make this poem very effective. I really dislike free verse poems because they have no flow or rhythm but the same intro words make up for this. Also having the last line start differently makes the last line stand out and be more powerful.
This poem uses a few rhetorical devices to make it more effective, few examples are;
The whole poem is an example of enumeration, because it makes all of its points in specific detail.
The whole poem is an example of amplification. Amplification is the repeated use of a word or phrase, which this poem does in that every line except the very last one begins with “The person who”. This allows the poem to have so flows and rhythm.
The whole poem is also an example of an antithesis. An antithesis is when the author makes a connection between two things. In this poem the author makes a connection between what the bully did and what the people impacted are doing or how they were affected.
Each one of these devices really helps the poem by doing different things that each make the poem more effective and flow better.