Jack Prelutsky

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On September 8, 1940, Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, and attended Hunter College in New York City. Although he claims to have hated poetry through most of his childhood, he rediscovered poetry later in life, and has devoted many years since to writing fresh, humorous poetry aimed specifically at kids.  After stints as a truckdriver, photographer, folksinger, and more, he is now the author of more than forty collections of original verse and anthologies of children's poetry, including: Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems (2013); The Swamps of Sleethe: Poems From Beyond the Solar System (2009); Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem (2008); Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Facey And Other Poems (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2008); Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems (2006); The Beauty of the Beast: Poems from the Animal Kingdom (2006); The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983); Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (1978), and The Queen of Eene (1976).  In 2006, Prelutsky was named the first Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. He lives in Seattle, Washington, and spends much of his time presenting poems to children in schools and libraries throughout the United States. Source

Noisy Noisy

It's noisy, noisy overhead,

the birds are winging south,

and every bird is opening

a noisy, noisy mouth.

 

They fill the air with loud complaint,

they honk and quack and squawk—

they do not feel like flying,

but it's much too far to walk.

Published:

1993

Length:

Regular

Literary Movements:

Children's

Anthology Years:

2022

Themes:

Nature

Literary Devices:

Anthropomorphism

the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object

End Rhyme

when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same

Imagery

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

Onomatopoeia

A word that, when spoken aloud, has a sound that is associated with the thing or action being named.

Personification

the attribution of human qualities to a non-human thing

Quatrain

A stanza made of four lines.

Rhyme

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry