I AM NOT OLD


My eyes are fine; they are just printing words small.
I just use a walking stick to seem stately and tall.

Nothing is wrong with my sense of smell.
My ears are fine if you don't whisper but yell.

The wrinkles are just laugh lines; they will go away.
It is fashion that has turned my hair from black to grey.

It's the cold, not age that is stiffening my knees.
I like to hum as I walk; it's not a wheeze.

What extra kilos? My scale is broken down.
If I try, I can still fit into my wedding gown.

My bones don't creak; my shoes are new.
My memory is sharp. Oh, do I know you?


BIODATA

·         Nandita Shailesh Shanbhag, born in India.

·         She loves to express her thoughts in verses so if her poem can touch a heart or heal a soul, Nandita feels like she fulfilled her objective.

·         Nandita is motivated by her parents, sister and friends, and is encouraged by her loving husband and daughters.

 

WHAT DOES HUMOR GOT TO DO WITH IT

It is a humorous poem because even though it is obvious that every line shows the signs of aging, the writer refuses to accept she is getting older by covering it up with something else like she has weak knees because of the cold weather and her grey hair caused by aging is because of fashion. At the end of the poem, the writer got caught when she asked if she knows somebody even though she said her memory is sharp.

 

LITERARY DEVICES

●     Assonance

i) Stanza 5, line 2: "If I try, I can still fit into my wedding gown."

ii) Stanza 6, line 1: "My bones don't creak; my shoes are new."

 

●     Alliteration

i) Stanza 1, line 2: "I just use a walking stick to seem stately and tall."

ii) Stanza 2, line 1: "Nothing is wrong with my sense of smell."

iii) Stanza 3, line 1: "The wrinkles are just laugh lines; they will go away."

 

●     Personification: "My eyes are fine; they are just printing words small." (It is not possible for eyes to print something because it was only made for the living things to see other things.)

 

MESSAGE/ MEANING OF THE POEM

Aging is inevitable but most of us want to defy this natural phenomenon instead of accepting the passage of years gracefully. This is a humorous poem composed around refusal to accept aging.

 

EFFECT OR VALUE

Getting older means getting better in life. When you look around at everything you’ve created and experienced and collected in your life, we bet you can count more gratitude than complaints.




 

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