Where The Sidewalk Ends By Skil Silverstein Analysis
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Stephanie Mitchell
M.A.C.U
ENGL1203 04W1 14SP English Composition II
Professor H.
May 25, 2014
This is my very first experience with this type of poetry and I most likely would have never read it if I was not taking this course. However, despite the delayed exposure the poem that I selected intrigued me somewhat.
Many of us today have a tendency to get all caught up in the hustle and bustle of life in general. We forget to take a look out the window sometime and appreciate our surroundings.
We have plans and the fear of drifting off our designated course we do not allow our imagination to run wild like a child does.
We have so many rules and regulations in our society that it is almost like being confined. But this particular poem written by Skiel Silverstein invites us to view the world with out restrictions and to leave all the worries …show more content…
Maybe this place has no sickness, unhappiness or pain. What I would give to be in a magical place like that.
This poem is also the title of a book penned by the same author. It is amazing though because it gives you the feeling that it represents two things at once.
It represents a magical place with all types of crazy things and also a place or city where the sidewalk literally stops. And it is also a metaphor; it represents the world of imagination. If we ever chose to leave worry and fear behind and take a step or two off of the paved paths we have created, and view the world like looking through the eyes of an innocent child, we just might find a place where the grass is greener and the sidewalk never ends. This sounds like a great place to me and I would love to go there. I never have really given the meaning of a poem or story this much thought. But my eyes have been opened to a whole new way of reading and writing since taking this
Stephanie Mitchell
M.A.C.U
ENGL1203 04W1 14SP English Composition II
Professor H.
May 25, 2014
This is my very first experience with this type of poetry and I most likely would have never read it if I was not taking this course. However, despite the delayed exposure the poem that I selected intrigued me somewhat.
Many of us today have a tendency to get all caught up in the hustle and bustle of life in general. We forget to take a look out the window sometime and appreciate our surroundings.
We have plans and the fear of drifting off our designated course we do not allow our imagination to run wild like a child does.
We have so many rules and regulations in our society that it is almost like being confined. But this particular poem written by Skiel Silverstein invites us to view the world with out restrictions and to leave all the worries …show more content…
Maybe this place has no sickness, unhappiness or pain. What I would give to be in a magical place like that.
This poem is also the title of a book penned by the same author. It is amazing though because it gives you the feeling that it represents two things at once.
It represents a magical place with all types of crazy things and also a place or city where the sidewalk literally stops. And it is also a metaphor; it represents the world of imagination. If we ever chose to leave worry and fear behind and take a step or two off of the paved paths we have created, and view the world like looking through the eyes of an innocent child, we just might find a place where the grass is greener and the sidewalk never ends. This sounds like a great place to me and I would love to go there. I never have really given the meaning of a poem or story this much thought. But my eyes have been opened to a whole new way of reading and writing since taking this