From the new poem packet!!

The poem I'm doing this week is "Toads." I didn't really understand the poem until Justin (in class) said that that's what his name for work was. Like he was comparing and naming his work toads. He talks about all the things that work does to him. Like he works for six days to pay a few bills, and some wives may be skinny but they don't starve. He's saying that he works and works and it's a pain just for a little bit of money to pay the bills and to eat, but not eat plentifully to eat just enough. Then at the bottom of his poem he says he can't get "the fame, the money and the girl." Here he is saying how he can't get love and money and all the glory in one sitting he has to work his whole life to achieve these things. He uses several different poetic strategies though! Like he uses an alliteration to describe jobs that he believes are not very dedicated. "Lecturers, lispers, losels, loblolly-men, louts..." they all coincidentally start with the same letter as Lazy! He also uses sarcasm to explain how he feels about pensions and money. "Ah, were I courageous enough To shout Stuff your pension! But I know, all too well, that's the stuff dreams are made of..." He knows that he isn't going to make a lot of money working so hard and he is being sarcastic saying oh it's just a far off dream it's not really achievable.