Bear In There

by Shel Silverstein

There's a Polar
In our Frigidaire--
He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.
With his seat in the meat
And his face in the fish
And his big hairy paws
In the buttery dish,
He's nibbling the noodles,
He's munching the rice,
He's slurping the soda,
He's licking the ice.
And he lets out a roar
If you open the door.
And it gives me a scare
To know he's in there--
That Polary Bear
In our Fridgitydaire.

This poem is funny. I think the author regarded the loud sound from a refrigerator as the polar bear's roar. The author’s idea was clever. No one will think the sound from the refrigerator is the bear's roar. I like the vocabularies that the author used, like nibbling, munching, and slurping, etc..Our refrigerator was so old that the sound was extremely loud. So I used to hate the refrigerator noise too.

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost (1874–1963)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;


Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,


And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.


I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

　　　

　I heard of this poem previously. I knew this poem is very famous. After I read it, I realized that it was about making a decision. I always felt hard when I am making a decision. This poem appealed to me a lot. I shouldn’t take easy way.