Shel Silverstein
While I was growing up as a child, there were three authors whose works I read devoutly. One was Dr. Seuss and I liked his books so much that I am proud to say I have read every one published. The second author who had a profound impact on me was Jan Bernstein who is responsible for that loveable family The Bernstein Bears. The third is a poet, which is odd because I never have liked poetry. Shel Silverstein's children's poetry books were the only poetry I read until I was twelve and are the one's I still enjoy the most today as a young man. Shel Silverstein is known to most as the critically acclaimed children's poet, and before this project, I was unaware of the other things he had done. Shel Silverstein also did cartoons, served for his country during the Korean War, wrote folk songs, played the guitar, and probably most shocking to me, were his poems and drawings for Playboy Magazine which depicted fairly gruesome sexual acts as well as drug use, especially his own. Life experience seems to be the influence for his NC-17 rated material but I was curious to who influenced his witty, lyrical children's pieces. When studying Silverstein's poetry, you can see how
Of course there is a sketch of a fat man standing on a scale he cannot see, done by Shel himself. Besides being humorous pieces, there are other similarities you can derive. Both poets use the same phrase they used to start and to finish their respective poems. However, Edward Lear never took his poetry as far as Silverstein. Most of Lear's poems are five lines long and all have a rhyme scheme of AABBA and they all repeat some form the first line for the ending. Basically, Silverstein progressed on Lear's ideas and form, as did Ogden Nash. a Price and a Steinberg. I never even saw their work till I was around
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