shel silverstein

“I want to go everywhere, look and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.” In other words, this quote means before he dies he wanted to go and do many things in life and it also means with all the little things in life you can do a lot. Shel Silverstein was influenced by what was going on, which was the Civil Rights Act. He was also inspired by friends and college professor, Robert Cosbey. Shel Silverstein was inspired and influenced by many things, including college professors to what was going on during that time period. Robert Cosbey was one of Shel’s professors. He inspired him by allowing the opportunity to work for the Roosevelt Torch, a newspaper of sharp opinion and biting humor that entertained the student masses. His friend Tomi Ungerer also inspired him. He inspired him by by bringing Shel into Ursula Nordstrom’s office, the director of Harper’s Department of Books for Boys and Girls, and making him show her his books. Ursula then accepted Shel’s book and made them best-sellers.
Shel was one of the many who wrote during the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights was when people were fighting for African-American’s rights. The laws were ridiculous and not fair at all. In public, blacks and whites had to be seperated, blacks and whites could not play together, and many more. On the bus blacks had to sit in the back of the bus and whites in the front. Rosa Parks, one of the main people during the Civil Rights Movement, was sitting in the front of the bus and a white person came and told her to move. She refused to move many times and then got sent to jail. Martin Luther King was also a main person. He made speeches and talked about the Civil Rights Movement. Martin was shot on April 4, 1968.
The poem I analyzed was Why I’m Screamin’ by Shel Silverstein. It was a narrative poem. It was a narrative poem because it rhymed and told a story. The rhyme pattern I found was A,A,B,B. The rhyme pattern