Best journal of innovation in science, research and development

BEST JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN SCIENCE, 
 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Volume:2 Issue:2|2023
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Whole rooms made out of glass. Imagine. 
I wish I could remember my name 
Mummy said it would come in useful. 
Like wellies. When there’s puddles. 
Yellowwellies. I wish she was here. 
I think my name is sewn on somewhere 
Perhaps the teacher will read it for me. 
Tea-cher. The one who makes the tea. 
We cannot remember every episode from our childhood. It is natural, that a human being easily forgets 
some details of his past. When childish peculiarities disappear, some states are also forgotten which 
are belonging to them. Although in general, some adults can describe some events from their 
childhood, but they cannot do it through the eyes of children. So, writing for children demands from 
the poet to be attentive and to have more amazing imagination. The children’s author Roger 
McGough’s poems are as fresh as children and can remind you your childhood and give a smile. 
The poet easily plays with the words - he took on the intricacies of children’s thoughts and 
imaginations with a totally new approach, new for everybody. Here we can see “his special talent has 
been an original use of poetic language, the inverted cliché … and neologistic devices.”
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He used such 
“new” words to show the child’s emotion and feelings, who goes to school for the first time. For 
example, the word millionbillionwillion shows how the distance from the house till the school seems 
so far to the little boy, who has never passed such way before; lessin he says is something “small and 
slimy”, perhaps an unpleasant thing, because of it pupils run away from them; glassrooms are the place 
where the teachers keep lessins, “whole rooms made out of glass” for the “small and slimy” things; 
tea-cher is “the person who makes the tea”, here the poet shows his skill to play the words, he easily 
draws the picture of the psychology of little children, who know and analyze each new thing according 
to their little knowledge and life experience. So we cannot understand their words – their new findings 
if they themselves do not explain. 
To write for children on their own language as in this poem it is not enough to have rich fantasy and 
imagination; it demands the poet to look around through the children’s eyes. 
A millionbillionwillon miles from home 
said the little hero of the poem, because the way between his home and school seems to him so long. If 
we remember our childhood, we can understand him, because at that time everything was so big and 
we were little. Time passed, we grew up but the things maintained and now they are not enormous like 
in the past. 
In the place which a millionbillionwillon miles away from his home the child is 
Waiting for the bell to go. 
but he himself does not know 
To go where? 
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Wright, B. Roger McGough :the poetics of accessibility.-ProQuest UIM Dissertations Publishing. United Kingdom. 2003. 

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