The Messy Room by Shel Silverstein

The poem describing a room being totally messed up and filled with undergarments, filthy stuffs, messy workbooks and several attires flying across all the room. Its an undesirable condition to live in and the air has to be so stink that breathing once will be like stuffing rubbish into nostrils. The poet also state that whoever lived in the room should be ashamed. This poem brings out some humors along and a little irony. They way the poet described the messiness is hilarious like "underwear hanging on the lamp" and " workbook is wedged in the window. It is a tongue in cheek humor because it is lined with sarcasm and irony. The irony is that he could easily point out the mistakes of others while he is the one who is irresponsible and the room is his.

Firstly, I personally thought that personal hygiene is really important especially when we live with others in a big group. Our personal hygiene could reflect our character and personalities. Messy and untidy living conditions could prove to someone that you are an irresponsible and dirty fellow. People will certainly distant us and had a bad impression in their mind. As what had written in the poem, the owner of the room is definitely lack of hygiene and was not conscious about the consequences and importance. Firstly "underwear hanging on the lamp" gives people the impression that the owner does not have daily washing of his clothes. His "workbook is wedged in window" shows how he does not take care of his works and obviously a lazy person who seldom studies. Its ashamed that a person room was such dirty and it really gives a bad image to whoever who steps into the room.

Above evidence clearly shows that from different aspects of a person a hygiene could actually have a good look of the person's attitudes to their lives, personalities, attributes and different sorts of personal informations.The poet describe terribly of the room in his poet but at the end there was a joke that the truth it was his room. He successfully conveyed that the person in the poem was extremely unaware of himself instead he could analyse a person's mistake in details without realizing that it was him that was going wrong and being irresponsible. The poem highlighted an aspect of a human character that we are quick to blame others instead of having a quick glance of ourself pointing out our own mistakes.

I was a neat and clean person and I hate to be in a filthy condition filled with strong odors, rodents,rubbishes and sorts of dirty stuff. I get used to tidy up my bedroom and cupboards whenever I have the time. It is important for me as I was living in a boarding school with other people and I don't like people calling me dirty cat. Having a clean environment, studying effectively is not a major problem. In compare of me to the poet, I think that if I could do it i bet everyone can do it as well. Maintaining a suitable and clean environment always surely has a positive effect instead of negative. Lastly, seeing other mistakes more than ourselves is always a human's characteristic. We human tend to cover our mistakes and bury it so that we couldn't look at them. While the other people mistakes, we tend to dig it as much information out from them. And I admitted that I was one of them. This poem is great as it really reflects alot of our human aspects in different ways through hygiene. It really gives us a good reflection on us.