The speaker exclaims over the state of a room. ’Messy Room’ is one of the more humorous Shel Silverstein that describes a messy room and its chaotic items. Then later, with “Hammers and nails, / Hammers and nails,” one can “build a boat.” He speaks more broadly on the creation of a ship and how that ship will take the speaker “anywhere new.” With “Needles and pins / Needles and pins,” one can “sew….a sail”. Silverstein presents a few scenarios in which the work that goes into creating a new experience or a new life is emphasized. ‘Needles and Pins’ is a short poem that uses repetition to convey determination and industriousness. This poem was published in Every Thing On It in 2011. They’ve been having more fun than the parent has. The poem concludes with the young speaker reminding the parent that it doesn’t matter what they’ve been doing. These range from exploring dark caves and silver mines to eating blackberries right off the bush. They go through a variety of fantasies, adventures, and probable and improbable answers to the question. The child’s parent asks them directly what’s going on, and then the response follows in perfectly rhymed lines. In ‘Dirty Face,’ Shel Silverstein describes why a child’s face is so dirty. Lovers of The Giving Tree will also enjoy this poem. Everything went okay at first, that is, until morning when he wakes up and interprets the snowball’s absence as a sign it ran away. He treats it as he would a friend or a pet. Once inside, the child makes “pyjamas” for the snowball as well as a pillow. There is humor in the fact that he doesn’t seem to realize it’s surely going to melt. He is determined to prolong his happiness as long as possible. The speaker decided to take it inside and try to keep it. It was “perfect,” and he had no intention of throwing it away or giving it up. The speaker of ‘Snowball,’ a young child, describes a wonderful snow day. It becomes clear that this isn’t a real place in the last lines, but one created by children to escape the black smoke and dark streets. Once one gets to the end of the sidewalk and leaves behind the carefully constructed real world, they can be cooled “in the peppermint wind.” There are “moon-bird” and happiness that doesn’t exist anywhere else. ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ looks at the differences between the adult world, portrayed as dry and harsh, and a child’s mind. They build on one another until the end of the poem, when the speaker alludes to the fact this cascade of emotions is likely to happen again the next night. The speaker describes how he was trying to sleep but couldn’t stop thinking about all the “whatifs.” The majority of the poem is made up of questions for which the speaker doesn’t have answers. ‘Whatif’ is an incredibly relatable poem by Shel Silverstein that speaks on one’s most persistent worries. This is a classic ending to a Silverstein poem. At the end of the poem, she realizes that all these excuses are unnecessary and that it was Saturday all along. The fact that there are so many different things she comes up with adds to the text’s amusing nature. As she speaks, the claims of ill health get more and more outlandish. She comes up with a collection of reasons, which she thinks are perfectly valid, why she should stay home instead. ‘Sick’ is a funny poem by Shel Silverstein that tells the lighthearted story of a child who does whatever she can to convince her parents she can’t go to school.
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