Poetic Devices In Shel Silverstein's Poetry

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Shel Silverstein has always been one of my all-time favorite poets, his poems have always resonated with me, and I can always find myself relating to his words. Shel Silverstein has used every poetic devices throughout his poetic life, but his use of humor and hyperbole has topped his career in my eyes. I would like to focus on his many uses of poetic devices, as well as on his many repeated themes, I hope to have many more poems of Shel Silverstein in my favorites at the end of this class. I will focus on the main themes and poems from some of his well-known books: “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, “Falling Up”, and “The Giving Tree”. Many people know at least one of these books, and I would like to find a deeper meaning within in them that my younger self might have never found. …show more content…
This book is filled with common childhood concerns and fun hyperboles that give the book depth and relief. A poem I will focus on from this book is one of my favorites, “Sick”, it is a story about a kid that pretending to be sick so that he does not have to go to school but finds out it’s Saturday and goes outside to play.“Falling Up” has a great excerpt on the back cover of a poem that explains the book’s theme well:
“Millie McDeevit screamed a scream
So loud it made her eyebrows steam.
She screamed so loud
Her jawbone broke,
Her tongue caught fire,
Her nostrils
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