Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1974 children’s poetry collection written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. It was published by Harper and Row Publishers. The book’s poems address many common childhood concerns and also present purely fanciful stories and imagination inspiring images.

The writer of this poem uses some figurative language, such as metaphor, personification, and symbol. From the first stanza, the writer uses comparison to compare the place of the sidewalk ends with many beautiful things. The writer uses metaphor to make the readers imagine how the condition of the place is.

of a free verse poem, giving a sense of meaning with the imagery of the holidays and food that is to be eaten! reading aloud, one can definitely feel the rhythm that is presented despite how short the poem is.

By employing assonance and alliteration, Shel Silverstein incorporates both music and melody into his poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” These are two techniques that enhance meaning. With both assonance and alliteration, Silverstein has a flow of sound and a rhythm that moves the poem lightly and rapidly at some points.

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Where the Sidewalk Ends: How does the point of view differ between the speaker and the person he is speaking to? A. The speaker doesn’t know where the end of the sidewalk is, but the person he is speaking to does.

The “peppermint wind” is likewise pleasant. Like eating a mint, a peppermint wind would be cool and refreshing. If you are old enough to remember York Peppermint Patty commercials, that is the idea. A cool, refreshing breeze in a pleasant place.

When Mr. Brown decides to “grow down…” He decides never to grow up. He has a good time.

Which of the following best describes the difference between the two stanzas? The first stanza is about the possibility of the speaker dying in battle and how England has shaped him, whereas the second stanza talks about what his afterlife will be like.

No, the speaker is not afraid of death. He would be given a corner for the foreign field.

The poet itself

Written with fourteen lines in a Petrarchan/Italian sonnet form, the poem is divided into an opening octet, and then followed by a concluding sestet. As far as rhyme scheme, the octet is rhymed after the Shakespearean/Elizabethan (ABAB CDCD) form, while the sestet follows the Petrarchan/Italian (EFG EFG) form.

Wallace Stevens, in his poem, “Death of a Soldier”, compares death at war to autumn in order to reveal the unconditional and unavoidable nature at which war always results in death. The poem opens with the line, “Life contracts and death is expected”.

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Simile refers to the comparison of something with another which is unrelated. Wallace Stevens extensively used Simile in his poem titled, “The Death of A Soldier”. Life contracts and death is expected, As in a season of autumn.

What was the problem with the soldier? Answer: The problem with the soldier was that he did not know the Spanish language.

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. NOTES. This sonnet finds a soldier speculating as he goes away to war about his possible death, which he feels should not be mourned, but understood as part of a selfless tribute to his much-loved England.

A pulse in the eternal mind? The “eternal mind” probably refers to something like the idea of God. The speaker seems to be saying that, when the soldier goes to heaven, he will become part of that larger, unending being and perhaps re-experience, in the form of a “pulse,” all the thoughts “by England given.”

Who’s For The Game is a quintessential jingoistic poem of that time – one that represents war as honourable, noble, and ultimately, a glory machine for which to work one must only have the same amount of courage that is needed to play a game of sport.