The Poem explained short and sweet with animated pics.

1. Amanda
Robin Klein
Presented by
Berachah Babu A

2. Robin Klein
Born 28 February
1936 (age 84)
Kempsey, New South
Wales, Australia
Genre Children’s and young
Adult fiction
Notable works Hating Alison Ashley,
Halfway across the
Galaxy and Turn Left

3. Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!
Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!
Stop that slouching and sit up straight,
Amanda!
Word meanings
Hunch : bend
Slouching : sitting in a lazy way

4. Word meanings
Languid: relaxed
Emerald : here, green color
Inhabitant : resident
Drifting : carried slowly by the water
Blissfully : happily
(There is a languid, emerald sea,
where the sole inhabitant is me—
a mermaid, drifting blissfully.)

5. When mother scolds Amanda, Amanda
imagines that she wants to be in a calm and green
sea . She wants be alone in the sea as a mermaid
swimming happily.

6. Did you finish your homework, Amanda?
Did you tidy your room, Amanda?
I thought I told you to clean your shoes,
Amanda!

7. Word meanings
Orphan: A child whose parents are dead
Hushed: quiet and still place
(I am an orphan, roaming the street.
I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

8. She imagines to be an orphan so that
no one will restrict her. She wants to play in
soil with bare foot with no disturbance. She
feels that silence is like a gold and freedom is
very sweet or happy.

9. Word meaning
Acne: Pimples
Don’t eat that chocolate, Amanda!
Remember your acne, Amanda!
Will you please look at me when I’m speaking to you,
Amanda!

10. Word meanings
Rapunzel : A girl in the fairy tale by
Brothers Grimm
Tranquil : calm, quiet
Rare : uncommon
(I am Rapunzel; I have not a
care;
life in a tower is tranquil and rare;
I’ll certainly never let down my bright hair!)

11. Amanda likes to be a Rapunzel. She
feels, life in tower is very calm and peaceful.
She says, she would never let her hair down.
So that no one can enter her tower and spoil
her freedom.

12. Sulking : be in a bad mood
Moody : unstable
Nagged: harass
Stop that sulking at once, Amanda!
You’re always so moody, Amanda!
Anyone would think that I nagged at you,
Amanda!
Word meaning

13. Mother says, don’t be annoyed Amanda,
and don’t be in sad. Others may think that I
hurt you.