Messy Room-"Do I Have the Rights?"

Messy Room by Shel Silverstein
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!His underwear is hanging on the lamp.His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.His workbook is wedged in the window,His sweater's been thrown on the floor.His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.His books are all jammed in the closet,His vest has been left in the hall.A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.ll.Whosever room this is should be ashamed!ll.Whosever room this is should be ashamed!Donald or Robert or Willie or‐‐ll.Whosever room this is should be ashamed!Donald or Robert or Willie or‐‐Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,ll.Whosever room this is should be ashamed!Donald or Robert or Willie or‐‐Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,I knew it looked familiar!

The poem is about a person that blames another even though he isn’t any good himself. Shel Silverstein made his opinion clear in a very amusing way. The statements that are in his poem are very often mentioned in our daily lives, and we are familiar with it. The person that usually hears “Tidy up your room,” are kids and teenagers and the person that usually says it are our mothers who naturally has the right to say that since they’re all tidied up first before scolding someone because of their mistakes. However, hilariously, Shel mentioned a “foolish” person that distinguishes the looks of a room, not knowing that it is actually his or her own. She Silverstein is trying to claim to all that before scolding another, think before acting, “Do I have the right to say something to this person? Am I appropriate for a model for that person’s mistakes?”