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Teenage Adolescence!

"Have you done your homework?"

"Have you tidied your room?"

"Turn your music down"

"Have you washed the pots?"

"You're grounded"

Recognise any of these phrases?

Nag, Nag, Nag That's all they seem to do,

Yeah you've guessed it that's parents for you,

Your alarm clock goes, you hear mum

Shout "Are you up yet?"

You bury your head under the pillow

And think to yourself God it's only 8.15

There's no need to fret,

So you're supposed to be in school for

twenty to nine,

You really do have no sense of time.

You finally get up and your hair ain't right

Your face looks as though you've been in a fight,

You look in the mirror and you've sprouted a big zit,

You're deffo late now coz you've just chucked a fit,

So your hair and face are a mess, you've sprouted a zit!

You're late for school oh! Lesson one PE

You've forgot your kit,

It's life and what can I say its part of growing up,

All you really need is lots of very good luck!!

By Stephanie Quinn

chucked a fit = TO GIVE AN EXCESSIVE DISPLAY OF ANGER OR FRUSTRATION

coz = BECAUSE

deffo = TERRIBLY

ANALYSIS FROM LINE 13 TO 26

Denotative analysis

The poet underlines how parents insist the adolescent gets up quickly because he/she might be late for school but the young chap believes there is so much time because he/she has to be at school for 8.40.

To tell the truth when you are an adolescent you don't really have a sense of time. You get up with terrible hair as if you had been in a fight . In addition you always have zits and when you look at your face in the mirror you hate it  and, of course, you are terribly late. You have no PE kit ready and nothing seems to work.

But that's life, part of growing up that's why you need a lot of luck.