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.