A Boy Named Sue by Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein uses connotation in his poem "A Boy Named Sue" to convey a message about growing up. The poem is written with a consistent rhyme scheme (aabccbeefggf). Shel Silverstein starts off the poem by giving background information about the boy named Sue. Sue's father left him at three, but before he left he named his son Sue. The poem then continues into Sue's quest to find the man that gave him his wretched name and kill him. Eventually Sue finds his father in a bar and they get in a scuffle, a little tussle, and they both draw their weapons, and it so happens, that his father named him Sue for a reason. Sue soon finds out that his name, Sue, helped make him into the man he is today. He doesn't shoot his dad, and his dad doesn't shoot him, and all is good in the world.