Analysis Of Sick By Shel Silverstein

In “Sick” by Shel Silverstein, the exaggeration of details and the playfulness of the story pulls you into the poem. At first glance, you might think this poem is about a girl who doesn’t want to go to school and makes up symptoms like “My ‘pendix pains each time it rains” to convince her parents that she should stay home. But when you read it a couple times, you realize that it actually has significant connection to today’s society because with everyone staying indoors on their electronics, they miss out on the world. Shel also uses many poetic devices in this poem. He uses a rhyme scheme which has a different rhyme every other line, alliteration, similes, and each line matches the amount of syllables as the line before. For example in line