MOSQUITOS BY KATHERINE HAUTH

Mosquitos,

with needle-noses,

sucking blood,

 from elbows, cheeks and chin

Why were you not 

designed to thrive

on brine,on swine,

or likewise-spiny

porcupines?

[Katherine Hauth]

💢Brief introduction of the poet.

• Children's author and poet,Katherine B. Hauth grew up in Grand Rapids,Michigan.
• After leaving a career as a personnel analyst in Seattle,she found herself drawn to the natural rhythms she encountered in the Southwest
• She found nature to be essentially poetic as she lived far away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
• Many of her poems are inspired by her observations of animals while hiking-or just walking around her neighborhood.

💢Information on any significant / historical / environmental /  personal etc etc events that happen surrounding the creation of the poems.

• There aren't any significant event regarding this poem but I can assume that the poet wrote this poem from the things she experienced.
• We know that she has left the life in city and moved out to a place where she is exposed to more natural things-and that includes insects like mosquito.
• It also suits the theme of the poem as children are often irritated by mosquitos and hate it.

💢Literary devices

• Alliteration

          "needle-noses"

          "cheeks and chin"

          "why were"

• Assonance

          "cheeks and chin"

          "on and on"

• Rhyme 

          "designed to thrive"

          "on brine,on swine"

          "or likewise-spiny"

          "porcupines"

💢Themes

•  characteristics of a mosquito.

💢Message

• the poet explains some characteristics of a mosquito and why it is not created with the same features and behaviour of a porcupine.

💢Favourite line

• Stanza 1,this is my favourite because in this stanza the poet describes the mosquito's behavior and the human body part that it always sucks blood from.