Silverstein's 'Where The Sidewalk Ends'

	Thumb Face, included in A Light in the Attic, is another example of Silverstein’s use of fantasy. The first line of the poem basically says it all: "There is a face upon my thumb . . .." (p. 55). For all practical purposes, this is an absurd situation. The speaker goes on to describe the features of the small face on his/her thumb. Certain descriptions of the face imply a sense of minuteness and leave the reader feeling compassionate for it because of its size. For example, Silverstein wrote, "It has a little twisty mouth, / And yellow teethies, too." Again, Silverstein uses end rhyme in the pattern of "a b c b," which helps move the story along in a definite rhythm. While the subject matter is irrational, Silverstein uses vivid descriptions and a straightforward picture

The main idea is simply, we cannot always be angry at each other, we need to show love and kindness. In the fifth stanza Miller explains, “As his weather clears, / His rage dripping away”(5-6). This links to main idea because it shows that there is always a way to get past your anger, just like a storm has to end, so does your anger. In the last stanza the writer, Jim Wayne Miller compares happiness to dandelions with the simile, “ wisecracks and wonderment / spring up like dandelions”(12-13). The dandelions are the rainbow after the storm. They are a metaphorical way of saying he has found happiness after the storm. All of this proves that Jim Wayne Miller is using these metaphors and similes to demonstrate the calm after the

Sunday mornings at House of Blues Chicago are different from most music venues. The House of Blues holds Kirk Franklin’s Gospel Brunch. The inside of the House of Blues is amazing. The lobby walls are filled with famous musicians portraits and American Art. They start opening up the morning by asking questions about the history of the venue. The first House of Blues opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1992. The venues goal is to serve the community while bringing music to the community. They feed the homeless on Thanksgiving Day before opening to the public, and they support local artist, and display their art around the building. In House of Blues Chicago, there are three floors. The restaurant, which is on the first floor. The stage, which

Grey Gardens is a superb musical and the incarnation at Bay Street Theatre, running through August 30th, is truly a special one for many reasons. Among them is the fact that the theatre, based in Sag Harbor, is only around 8 miles from the infamous house, so this truly hits home for them. Additionally, you will be grateful you are seeing this show as it has a remarkable cast filled with Broadway veterans.

Shel Silverstein, the author of, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, was a musician and poet known for writing children books such as, “The Giving Tree” (Shel Silverstein). He was born on September 25, 1930 and died on May 8, 1999 (Shel Silverstein). Throughout his life Mr.Silverstein, worked in many diverse occupations ranging from the military to becoming an author (Shel Silverstein). Because majority of his books and poems were for children, they (the books and poems) often incorporated positive imagery, metaphors, etc. In the poem, “Where The Sidewalk Ends”, Shel Silverstein uses imagery, shift, and personal pronouns to identify that adults must forget about the materialistic things in their lives to achieve a greater sense of happiness and joy.

The end of a sidewalk is a dangerous place to be because no one knows what lies below, however, children live a carless life and so, they know the end of the sidewalk holds much mystery for them. The feeling of the unknown attracts children due to the fact that a world of possibilities is open to be discovered and explored, something adults forget about when they grow up. The author uses sidewalks as a form of symbolism to represent how sidewalks are a place where children spend most of their time playing games, worry-free, whereas an adult spends most of their time in the “street.” The street also symbolizes a place full of work and responsibility which is linked to commuting where the adult needs to go to work. The imagery in “And there the grass grows soft and white,” helps readers imagine children playing in grass, having a great time, not worrying about the stains in their clothes. “Soft” for the reason that children are not always complaining about issues adults are always concern about and “white” referring to their purity of responsibility. The grass is something not always pleasant in the adult world, where the color green of the grass can refer to money; the item that is always on an adult’s mind constantly. Grass causes stains which can refer to money causing finical

1. A. Bull Market: It’s a financial market consisting of a group of securities in which prices rise or more or less are expected to rise. This is a positive market.     B. Bear Market: it’s a financial market consisting of a group of securities in which prices are falling. This is a negative market.     C. Take-Over: A Take-Over is referred to as when one company purchases another. Companies purchase other companies I means to expand business and to increase market share, increasing capital growth.     D. Merger: A Merger is referred to when two or more companies combine into one company. This generally occurs when stockholders of one company buys over stock of another company, the parties agree to integrate into one company.     E. Asset Stripping: Asset Stripping is the process of buying an undervalued company, selling off all its assets for a profit. This usually occurs when companies are battling in the market and have no other choice to get rid of assets to survive the breakdown.     F. Greenmail: Greenmail is the practice of purchasing enough shares in a company to threaten a Take-Over, forcing the targeted firm to buy the shares back at a certain price per share to suspend the Take-Over.     G. Annual General Meeting: The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a meeting that involves officials, and associates involving the public. AGM’s are required by law to be held once every year. It is an opportunity for shareholders and partners to be informed of the company’s financial

In the poem “Whatif” by Shel Silverstein the speaker discusses all the whatifs he thinks about as he lies in his bed at night. The poem first shows the speaker who appears to be thinking at night but ends up thinking about “whatifs” instead of happy thoughts. He starts to think about negative things that could happen to him such as “whatif I’m dumb at school” or “whatif I get sick and die”.

Shel Silverstein was born in Chicago, Illinois and began writing at a very young age. He is the author of children’s literature like “Everything On It” and “Where the Sidewalk Ends”. In 1963, he met an editor named Ursula Nordstrom who inspired him about writing a book that is suited for children. In the book “Everything On It”, Silverstein added humor and laughs for the children who read the book, but still be able to add a life lesson. However, in the book “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, he wanted to inform adults to look back on their own childhood and look for the moments that gave them joy. When writing those books, Silverstein used different styles when writing his poems. For example, he uses rhyming, punctuation, rhythm, and tone to engage children and make them enjoy his poems, but still be able to portray his message or lesson from each poem to kids.

In order to better connect with her audience, Halsey’s symbolism gives her poem a deeper meaning that in turn allows it to be more widely interpreted. Erica Dalton states "Halsey noted [the poem’s] symbolism in connection with mental health . . . This artificial construction of reality represents her personal psychological discord, while simultaneously providing listeners with an abstraction relatable to their own unique stories of mental distress or mental illness.” (Dalton). Lines four and five, “Survival of the richest, the city’s ours until the fall./They’re Monaco and Hamptons bound, but we don’t feel like outsiders at all” (“”New Americana” Lyrics”), reveal an underlying meaning of what it means to be part of the new generation. The poor,

Although this poem also is connected with nature, the theme is more universal in that it could be related to Armageddon, or the end of the world. Even though this theme may seem simple, it is really complex because we do not know how Frost could possibly

Sheldon Silverstein, an author, illustrator, poet, and songwriter; was born in 1939 and passed away of a massive heart attack in 1999. He was a veteran and served in Korea and Japan. One of his popular pieces is Where the Sidewalk Ends was his first collection of poetry written in 1974. In the first stanzas the second line roughly rhymes with the last line, “And before the street begins,” “to cool in the peppermint wind.” Then the third through fifth line all rhyme, “And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight.” Then the second stanzas also follows this rhyme scheme with the second line rhyming with the last and third, fourth and fifth all rhyming. Some stressed

alludes to the smoke emanating from the city and industrialization makes the world and sky darker

      The first three stanzas extol the wonders of the faery world and of faery life: they '... foot it all night/Weaving olden dances/Mingling hands and mingling glances', leading an idyllic life where the '...moonlight glosses/The dim grey sands with light', surrounded by scenes of breathtaking beauty and natural life.  This care-free existence is contrasted to the human world, for '... the [human] world is full of troubles/And is anxious in its sleep.'  Note, however, that the speaker is very ambiguous when mentioning these troubles, never confronting them directly, never clearly stating what they are.  There is a 'gap' here, a deflection from the supposed horrors of the human world.

The speaker cannot hear the words of the song as they are incomprehensible. However, he describes the tone and beauty of the song and the mood and emotions that are stirred within them. Wordsworth had described poetry to be the ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ (REF) meaning he believed that poetry derives from the feelings of the poet rather than the intellect. The poem is therefore the flow of emotions from the author which are transcribed in a fluent and articulate matter. The theme of nature and man’s relationship with it is a prevalent theme in many works from the Romantic movement. REF states that Wordsworth ‘uses nature to transcend materiality to discover a universal spirituality which the development of his own consciousness exemplifies.’ Wordsworth does not view nature purely from a superficial lens, rather from a philosophical and theological standpoint. Nature, for the Romantics had the power to purify and awaken the soul. The setting of the poem is set in northern Scotland and the ‘highland lass’ is within nature, toiling in the field. The speaker describes the woman as she is one with nature, as she is likened to a cuckoo bird and a nightingale. The stillness of the unspoiled landscape with its lochs and expansive glens ‘the vale profound’ is broken by the girls ‘music’, which is described as more ‘thrilling’ than a ‘cuckoo bird’ who ‘breaks the silence of the