The poem, Home to Roost, was created by Kay Ryan who is considered to be on of the most original voices in contemporary poetry. The poem is about bad deeds coming back to haunt you and in order to understand the poem, the reader must understand the saying “Chickens coming home to roost.” The meaning…

Advice for a Stegosaurus seems like a simplistic poem at first glance due to the short length of the poem and the easy to understand language, but it has a message that can be missed on a person’s first time reading it. The message is one that a lot of people can relate to because…