6. Sad I Ams Presentation

Sad I Ams By: Trevor Millum

About the Poet…

TREVOR MILLUM

• Born in the U.K • Writes poems, plays and stories for all ages. • Self-employed. • Poetry collections : A Stegosaurus if for Life and Other animal poems and Exploding Heads Comics Strip Poems. • An Ex-English teacher • Was director of the National Association for Teaching of English

The Poem… I am the ring from an empty Cola can the scrapings from an unwashed porridge pan the severed arm from last year’s Action Man I am the envelope on which the gum is gone the Sellotape where you can’t find the end the toothless stapler, springless bulldog clip the dried-up liquid paper the mars instead of mends the stamped addressed reply that you forgot to send

I am the battery in which no charge is left the starter motor which remains inert the tyre on which the tread is worn the sparking plug which shows no sign of spark the carburettor choked by bits of dirt the chromium trim from which the shine has gone. I am a garden overgrown with weeds a library book that no one ever reads

Poem Analysis: Stanza 1 Poem

Meaning

I am the ring from an empty Cola can the scrapings from an unwashed porridge pan the severed arm from last year’s Action Man

The persona is the ring from an empty drink can, leftovers from an uncleaned porridge pan and the broken arm of last year’s action toy.

Stanza 1 the ring from an empty Cola can

the scrapings from an unwashed porridge pan

the severed arm of last year’s Action Man

Poem Analysis: Stanza 2 Poem

Meaning

I am the envelope on which the gum is gone the Sellotape where you can’t find the end the toothless stapler, springless bulldog clip the dried-up liquid paper the mars instead of mends the stamped addressed reply

The persona goes on to say that he or she is like an assortment of unwanted stationery items such as an envelope that cannot be sealed as the gum is gone, the roll of Sellotape which cannot be peeled off, an empty stapler without staples and a clip that has no

Stanza 2

the envelope on which gum is the stamped goneaddressed reply that you forgot to send

the toothless stapler the sellotape where you can’t find the end springles s bulldog clip the dried-up liquid paper

Poem Analysis: Stanza 3 Poem

Meaning

I am the battery in which no charge is left the starter motor which remains inert the tyre on which the tread is worn the sparking plug which shows no sign of spark the carburettor choked by bits of dirt the chromium trim from which the shine has gone.

In this stanza, the persona likens himself or herself to various parts of a car. The persona is a battery that cannot charge, a starter motor that does not work, a bald tyre, a sparking plug with no life, a dirty carburettor and not a too shiny

Stanza 3 the carburettor choked by bits of dirt the battery in which no charge is left the tyre on which the tread is worn the sparking plug which shows no sign

the chromium trim from which the shine has gone

the starter motor which remains inert

Poem Analysis: Stanza 4 Poem I am a garden overgrown with weeds a library book that no one ever reads a stray which no one thinks to feed the piece of good advice which no one seems to need

Meaning In the final stanza, the persona equates himself/ herself to an overgrown garden, a book from the library that no one picks out, a hungry stray and an unheeded piece of good advice.

Stanza 4 a stray which no one thinks to feed

a library book that no one ever reads

a garden overgrown with weeds

a piece of good advice which no one seems to need

Setting…

No specific place is mentione d.

No specific time frame is mentioned. The persona is simply relating his or her thoughts.

Tone Gloomy and depressing. & Sympathy and sad especially mood within a family.

P.O.V ‘First person’ point of view The gender of the persona is not mentioned. However, it can be assumed that the persona Persona an elderly.

p.o.v – point of

Rejecti on

Negligence of one’s possessions

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Them es

Feeling of uselessn ess

Negativis m about life

Moral Values…

Literary Devices… Scrapings from an unwashed porridge pan symbolizes unwanted things “The scrapings from an unwanted porridge pan”  “The severed arm of last year’s Action Man” Persona regards

himself as the unwanted things such as ring of empty cans. Asso : “ unwashed porridge pan” Allit : “that mars instead of mends”  “the carburetor choked itself by bits of dirt”  “ the toothless stapler”

THE END

• Prepared for : English JKD, PPD Kluang