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Class:-X English: Poem - 6 Amanda BY Robin Klein

The poem is about a girl named Amanda who feels controlled by the repeated instructions and nagging addressed to her. Each stanza begins with directives to Amanda, but ends with her imaginative thoughts of freedom as a mermaid, orphan, or Rapunzel, contrasting with her real life. The poem uses literary devices such as repetition, rhyme, metaphor, and allusion to portray Amanda's desire to escape reality.

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Class:-X English: Poem - 6 Amanda BY Robin Klein

The poem is about a girl named Amanda who feels controlled by the repeated instructions and nagging addressed to her. Each stanza begins with directives to Amanda, but ends with her imaginative thoughts of freedom as a mermaid, orphan, or Rapunzel, contrasting with her real life. The poem uses literary devices such as repetition, rhyme, metaphor, and allusion to portray Amanda's desire to escape reality.

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CLASS:- X

ENGLISH
POEM- 6
AMANDA
BY Robin Klein
ABOUT THE POET

Robin Mc Maugh Klein is and Australian author of


books for children.
She writes Children’s and young adult fiction.
Some of her famous books are Hating Alison
Ashley, People might hear you, etc.
About the poem

Every child feels that she/he is controlled and


instructed not to do one thing or another.

You too may feel that your freedom is curtailed.


Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!
Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!
Stop that slouching and sit up straight,
Amanda!
(There is a languid, emerald sea,                     
where the sole inhabitant is me—
a mermaid, drifting blissfully.)
1. Hunch: bend
2. Slouching: sitting in a lazy way
3. Languid: relaxed
4. Emerald: here, green colour
5. Inhabitant: resident
6. Drifting: carried slowly by the water
7. Blissfully: happily
Did you finish your homework, Amanda?
Did you tidy your room, Amanda?
I thought I told you to clean your shoes,
Amanda!                                                                  
(I am an orphan, roaming the street.
I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

1. Orphan: A child whose parents are dead

2. Hushed: quiet and still place


Don’t eat that chocolate, Amanda!
Remember your acne, Amanda!
Will you please look at me when I’m speaking to you,
Amanda!
(I am Rapunzel; I have not a care;                         
life in a tower is tranquil and rare;
I’ll certainly never let down my bright hair!)

1. Acne: Pimples
2. Rapunzel: A girl in the fairy tale by Brothers Grimm
3. Tranquil: calm, quiet
4. Rare: uncommon
Stop that sulking at once, Amanda!
You’re always so moody, Amanda!        
Anyone would think that I nagged at you,
Amanda!

1. Sulking: be in a bad mood


2. Moody: unstable
3. Nagged: harass
Figure of speech
Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!
Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!
Stop that slouching and sit up straight,
Amanda!
(There is a languid, emerald sea,                     
where the sole inhabitant is me—
a mermaid, drifting blissfully.)
Literary devices:
Anaphora: Repeated use of a word at start of two or more lines (don’t bite… don’t
hunch)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ (don’t hunch your shoulders)

Metaphor: use of word emerald sea for green colour of sea being similar to the colour
of emrald
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Imagery: drifting blissfully
Alliteration: ‘Stop that slouching and sit up straight’ - ‘s’ sound is being repeated at the
start of closely placed words.
Allusion: ‘mermaid’ is a well known imaginary creature.
Figure Speech
Did you finish your homework, Amanda?
Did you tidy your room, Amanda?
I thought I told you to clean your shoes,
Amanda!                                                                  
(I am an orphan, roaming the street.
I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

Literary devices:
Anaphora: Repeated use of a word at start of two or more lines (did you
finish….did you tidy)
Rhyme: Rhyme scheme is aada eee (Amanda, Amanda, shoes, Amanda,
street, feet, sweet)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ (Thought, told, you, your, shoes)
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Metaphor: silence is golden - silence is said to be glorious like golden colour
freedom is sweet - freedom is said to be sweet in taste.
Figure of Speech
Don’t eat that chocolate, Amanda!
Remember your acne, Amanda!
Will you please look at me when I’m speaking to you,
Amanda!
(I am Rapunzel; I have not a care;                         
life in a tower is tranquil and rare;
I’ll certainly never let down my bright hair!)

Literary devices:
Allusion: use of famous fairy tale character Rapunzel
Rhyme: rhyme scheme aafa ggg (Amanda, Amanda, you, Amanda, care,
rare, hair)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘e’ and ‘o’ (Will you please look at me
when I’m speaking to you
Consonance: use of sound ‘r’ (I am Rapunzel; I have not a care …..Bright
hair)
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Figure of Speech
Stop that sulking at once, Amanda!
You’re always so moody, Amanda!        
Anyone would think that I nagged at you,
Amanda!

 Literary Devices:
Alliteration: ‘Stop that sulking’ - ‘s’ sound is repeated at the
start of closely placed words
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Rhyme scheme: aaha (Amanda, Amanda, you, Amanda)

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