“Tell me I’m clever, tell me I’m kind, tell me I’m talented, tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and Wise, tell me I’m perfect-- But tell me the TRUTH” is one of the quotes made by Shel Silverstein from Falling Up. Silverstein likes to write humorous poetry that sometimes include drawings and is also known well for writing to children of young age. His poetry is often mixed with seriousness and silliness. Silverstein had an interest in music as well. For example, in 1960, Silverstein was interested in folk music and at some point in his life, he began writing his own musical works. Additionally, Silverstein participated in making his own plays, one of which was called “The Lady or The Tiger Show”. Overall, Silverstein was more than just a poet; he was also an actor as well as an artist in drawings and music.
From the battlefield to the city street, Shel Silverstein found a platform for his creativity through drawing and writing. Silverstein was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 25th, 1930 and his death occurred from a heart attack, which happened in Key West, Florida on May 10, 1999 (Poets.org). His creativity in writing and drawing came out at quite a young age (Ocities.org). “He started out as a cartoonist, publishing work in Playboy and the military publication Star & Stripes, before turning to children’s books” (The Poetry Foundation). He found his talent in not only creating cartoons, but also in other creative areas, which consisted of poetry, music, and writing (Poets.org). The person who influenced him to start writing for children was book editor, Ursula Nordstrom. One of his best known stories is entitled “The Giving Tree”. The tree in this particular best-selling book acts like a mother to a boy. Th...
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Where the Sidewalk Ends is written by Shel Silverstein. Where the Sidewalk Ends is written on 1974. Shel wrote this poem in the literature fiction. I thought that the poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” was a great poem because it talked about a sidewalk that ends at some place. Some of the literary devices that were in the poem was and, the, and walk. Some of the rhyme devices that were in the poem as well was walk, chalk, his, and is. My opinion of the poem was that I thought it was very weird to see a very long sidewalk (Shel Silverstein Poems). I was very surprised to see that the sidewalk was long. One thing I did not understand was how there was a very long sidewalk. One other poem that Shel Silverstein wrote was “Messy Room” and it was very
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