Analysis Of Where The Sidewalk Ends By Shel Silverstein

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Where the Sidewalk Ends Critical Analysis Where the sidewalk ends is a collection of poems by Shel Silverstein. The book was published in 1974. When I started looking into the actual poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” I thought a good place to start would be to find out a little more about the author so that maybe it could help me with understanding the poem. I went to Shel Silverstein’s website at www.shelsilverstein.com. He has many books with collections of poems and he is considered to be a children’s writer. The most interesting thing I learned was that he wrote the song “A Boy Named Sue”, along with some other songs. I have always loved that song and knowing he wrote it made me believe he has a great sense of humor. According to the

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