Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Themes and Characters
The theme of Joyful Noise is the life cycle of insects. Through verbal recreation of the sounds made by insects, the poems relate the birth of bounding grasshoppers and dreaming butterflies, the courtship of lovesick moths and contrary book lice, the death of frenzied mayflies and digger wasps.
Porch/Light/hear my plight! /I drink your light/like nectar.In his Newbery acceptance speech, the author told how he selected the insects he would include, "Some were chosen purely for their musical possibilities, most struck me as metaphors for myself." Through their...
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