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,

Yeh 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

The title of the poem is teenage adolescence by Stephanie Quinn and reading it I suppose it will speak about teenagers' life. There are two words saying the same concept maybe to underline the tile and also there's an exclamation mark that conveys poetess feelings. The structure is arranged into 25 lines. There are two parts in this poem the first there's a direct speech reporting usual phrases that a teenager hears like "have you done your homework?" and "have you tidied your room?". In the second part there's a use of language that belong of  informal register speaking about a classic teenage morning and problems connected to this age. In this part of the poem there's  a free reported speech to hide the figure of the narrator (Nag, Nag, Nag That's all they seem to do) and also there's a use of short phrases that creates a rhythmical effect that sticks into the mind of a reader (Shout "Are you up yet?"). In addition there's a repetition of the pronoun "you". For me this means that the poetess is far from this kind of age and maybe she felt the same things when she was a teenager. Also in the second part there is a use of rhyme that connect nine time, zit fit.So the first part is in disagree with the second because the first is as parents live this kind of age and in the second is as a teen lives his life. So, I can understand from this poem that teenagers don't matter school, arrive punctuality, have all things they need but the most important thing is their look and how they appear. In conclusion there's a important connection created by a rhyme that say growing up good luck, and this is the poetess wish to all teenagers.