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The poem "Poor Angus" by children's poet Shel Silverstein is written as if it were a conversation between an unknown speaker and a young man named Angus. "What do you do, poor Angus, when hunger makes you cry?" the speaker asks. Angus replies: "I fix myself an omelet, sir, of fluffy clouds and sky." When he is cold, Angus says that he "sews himself a warm cloak, sir, of hope and daffodils." Despite the lack of a roof over his head, food in his belly, and warm clothes on his back, the poor Angus of the poem refuses to be downtrodden. The only time "I feel I'm really poor," Angus says, is when Catherine, his love, is gone away. Although the speaker in the poem obviously feels that Angus should be more upset about his lack of material possessions, Angus himself knows that, with love, he has more than he needs.
