Poetry Review: A Critical Analysis Of Shel Silverstein

The poet I will be analyzing is Shel Silverstein. Shel Silverstein wrote books of poems such as “Falling up”,“A Light in the Attic” and “Where the Sidewalk ends”. I chose to analyze this poet because a couple years back I read one of his poems for the first time and ever since then I've been able to memorize the poem just a little bit. If you are trying to memorize a poem I think poems that rhyme are the easiest therefore, each of the ending words all sound similar so it is easier. Plus, if the poems are long like this one it is a little more difficult to understand, but when it rhymes it's easier and much more fun to read.

A poem that he has written called “sick” is about a girl in school and makes things up saying why she can't go to

My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,

I’m going blind in my right eye.

My tonsils are as big as rocks,

I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox”

This part of the poem shows that rhythm makes poems more interesting and fun to read. When poems rhyme it makes it easier for the reader to picture what is going on and

I chose to analyze this poet because a couple years back, I read one of his poems for the first time and ever since then I've been able to memorize the poem just a little bit. If you are trying to memorize a poem I think poems that rhyme are the easiest because each of the ending words all sound similar so it is easier. Plus, if the poems are long like this one it is a little more difficult to understand, but when it rhymes it's easier and much more fun to read.

Another poem that Shel Silverstein wrote and is one of my favorites is “Boa Constrictor”. It is a short poem about the writer/character getting eaten by a boa constrictor and it rhymes as well. This poem indeed gives imagery because in the poem it, explains that the boa constrictor is at different parts of the person. For example,

“Oh, gee,

It's up to my knee.

Oh my,

It's up to my thigh.

Oh, fiddle,

It's up to my middle.

Oh,