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·        Considering the title, the reader understands the poem deals with adolescence. The exclamation mark underlines the exclamation tissue of the text.

·        The extract from the poem covers the typical scene one can see in the early morning before a teenager is ready to go to school. The poetess has the reader hear all the recurring questions a teenager is addressed to by parents and asks the reader if he or she can recognise such phrases. There follows a comment on parents' behaver: one's mother reminding his/her children it is late and they have to go to school and the teenager's reactions. He/she feels like remaining in bed because he/she considers there is still time and there's no need to hurry up. The extract ends with a later consideration: teenagers do not seem to have any sense of time. They don't remember they have to get washed, combed and ready to go out. Last but not least, teenagers do not generally like their faces: they can see only the worse part of it, just there, where you can find as it!

·        The intelligent reader immediately realizes that the extract is arranged into three parts, each having a precise functions:

-               The first five lines, rendered in an interrogative syntax, reproduce on the sound level the obsessive question parents generally address their children.

-               The second part of the poem that covers lines from 6 from 15, provides a comment on parents' boring and frequent phrases that hint at what teenagers should do and don't do (they are young and they have lach of experience)

-               The third part, signalled by an anaphoric syntax, provides a final comment on teenagers' most frequent preoccupations and behavers. They don't understand time passes quickly, they don't remember they have to go to the bathroom and get ready to go to school and symbolically enough they don't like themselves: their face is never okay, they look fat and there is always a zit on their adolescent face.