Unit II - Poem

Be Glad your Nose is on your Face

- JACK PRELUTSKY

About the Poet

Born in Brooklyn, Newyork in 1940

Author of more than 50 anthologies

Anthology means a collection of poems

JACK PRELUTSKY

If you have Nose like this

How will you feel?

Uses of organs

We see with our …

Eyes

We hear with our …

Ears

We taste with our …

Tongue

We sense with our …

Skin

We smell with our…

Nose

How will you feel if your nose is

displaced in some other place ?

Have you ever felt that nose is an

unnecessary and unwanted organ ?

I

Be glad your nose is on your face,

not pasted on some other place,

for if it were where it is not,

you might dislike your nose a lot.

Pasted – Stuck / fixed

Eg: Nose is pasted on the head Nose is stuck on the head Nose is fixed on the head

If it is pasted somewhere,

you would feel uncomfortable

II

Imagine if your precious nose

were sandwiched in between your toes,

that clearly would not be a treat,

for you’d be forced to smell your feet.

PreciousHighly Valuable, Worth,

Esteemed

Life is preciousSandwiched

Pressed between two things.

The baby is tasting a sandwich

•If it is sandwiched between your toes,

•you would be forced to smell and it would not be a fair treat.•When will you be forced to

smell your feet? •when it is sandwiched inbetween your toes.

III

Your nose would be a source of dread

were it attached atop your head,

it soon would drive you to despair,

forever tickled by your hair.

Dread Fear, Terror, Awe

He has a dread of hospitals

Despair lose hope , Despondency

She is in great despair

Tickled slightest touch which causes laughter

Nose on forehead

• If it is placed on your forehead, it will be tickled by your hair

•When would nose become a source of dread? When it is placed on the top of the

head.

Nose on Toes

• If it is sandwiched between your toes, you would be forced to smell and it would not be a

fair treat.•When will you be forced to smell your feet?• when it is sandwiched in between your toes.

IV

Within your ear, your nose would be

an absolute catastrophe,

for when you were obliged to sneeze,

your brain would rattle from the breeze.

Catastrophe Sudden calamity, Sudden disaster

Rattleinharmonious noises

Nepal faced a dreadful catastrophe

Angry son rattled the door.

NOSE WITHIN EAR

If it is within your ear,It will be an absolute catastrophe

Your brain will rattle when you sneezeWhat is meant by catastrophe?

Sudden calamityPick out the word which denotes inharmonious noises

(a)rattle (b)battle (c)shuttle

V

Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,

remains between your eyes and chin,

not pasted on some other place -

be glad your nose is on your face!

- Jack Prelutsky

Be happy,your nose is between your eyes

and chin(i) ____________ is the apt place for the nose.

a)Toes b)forehead c)between eyes and chin c)ear(ii) Find out the idiom given in the first line

Thick and thin

Rhyming words found in the poemFace – place

Not – lotNose – toesTreat – feet

Dread - head

Words of alliteration “th”Your nose, instead, through thick and thin

Be glad your nose is on your face,

not pasted on some other place,

for if it were where it is not,

you might dislike your nose a lot.

Rhyme scheme employed in this poem is

aabb

a

a

b

b

A DIAMONTE POEM Noun

Adjective Adjective V+ing V+ing

V+ing N-1 N-2 N-3

N-4 V+ing V+ing

V+ing Adjective Adjective

Noun

Nose Sharp Beautiful

Smelling Inhaling Exhaling

Sneeze Irritation Sight Lovely

Seeing Pleasing Viewing

Elegant Attractive Eyes