An Appreciation Of Rhythm
This poem by Ian Crichton Smith is a poem about a boy who is sitting in a classroom feeling very frustrated. He begins to stare out beyond the classroom window and imagines where he wants to be.
The poem is written in first person speech, as it begins with ‘I’. The mood of the poem at the start is frustration ‘I smack the ball right through the goals.’ This is a very aggressive piece of text and you can really feel the boy’s frustration and anger. The boy feels very misunderstood as he cant do his work and nobody can help him because they don’t understand, ‘But they dunno how the words get muddled in my head.’ The writer uses school boy slang which makes you think a bit more about what the boy is trying to say and the different way he conveys his feelings.