Emphasis Preaching Journal
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The poem "Poor Angus" by children's poet Shel Silverstein is written as if it were a conversation between an unknown speaker and a young man named Angus. "What do you do, poor Angus, when hunger makes you cry?" the speaker asks. Angus replies: "I fix myself an omelet, sir, of fluffy clouds and sky." When he is cold, Angus says that he "sews himself a warm cloak, sir, of hope and daffodils." Despite the lack of a roof over his head, food in his belly, and warm clothes on his back, the poor Angus of the poem refuses to be downtrodden.