Cloony The Clown by Shel Silverstein

Hi people :)
A few days ago, Ms Soh, our Language Arts teacher, went through a few poems by Shel Silverstein with us. There were 2 poems that I felt were especially meaningful. I'll write about the other one in the next post. The poem I am going to be talking about today is Cloony The Clown by Shel Silverstein. Here's a link to the poem if you hadn't read it. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/shel_silverstein/poems/14822

I found this poem very interesting because it talked about some of the harsh realities of life. The irony of this poem is that, when the clown tried very hard to make people laugh by cracking jokes and doing tricks, nobody laughed because they thought he wasn't funny enough. However, when he tried to convince people how sad it is to be an unfunny clown, everyone laughed at the clowns sadness.

This kind of reflects some of the harsh realities in life. In life, sometimes we try our best, and put our 100% effort into doing something, but somehow, we fail miserably, just like how Cloony the Clown tried his best to make people laugh, but everyone frowned despite of his hardwork.

However, at other times, we do nothing to achieve our goals and targets, but by some obscure stroke of luck, we succeed, just like how Cloony made everyone laugh without any intention to do that.

Thats all for now :)