Shel Silverstein

Point of View

Point of View - meaning Summary

Dinner's Point of View

The poem playfully urges readers to imagine common holiday and everyday meals from the animals' perspective. By flipping viewpoint—turkey at Thanksgiving, chicken at Sunday dinner, fish and meat generally—it exposes the moral awkwardness of eating creatures we enjoy. The tone is wry and lightly persuasive, prompting a brief moral reconsideration through humor rather than heavy argument.

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Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless Christmas dinner's dark and blue When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny Easter feasts are just bad luck When you see it from the viewpoint Of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too 'Til I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

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