Shel sılverstein
"Shel"l Silverstein
Shel Silverstein is an American poet, screenwriter, singer-song writer, author and a cartoonist. He passed away in 1999, at the age of 68. And he left behind worthy poems and writings. As all artists he had always been under the influence of variety of facts that made his name unique and memorable. He passed through some tragic experiences in his life. And those life experiences made him "different."
In his life Silverstein experienced the pain of loosing a child, and he experienced that maybe the worst way to experience. One day before from his daughter's, Shoshanna, fifth birthday his wife passed away. Sureky that was too tragic for him, and affected every inch of his life. Then after seven years, when Shoshanna was 11, his daughter died. After loosing the ones he loved he dedicated himself to his art. He kept writng poems and song lyrics. For example, one of his poems, "Where the Sidewalk Ends", was obviously dedicated to the children effected from something bad. And it is about fixing those dificulties. Here as one can see:
“There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
(goodreads)
now one can see that how Silverstein was under the effect of the back to back deaths, and how much he wants his other child to be alive.
So Shel Silverstein was kept writing after the difficulties he had passed through, and mostly wrote about the children. And most of his poems were about "protecting children". Silverstein's attitude towards to the these tragedies around him was to reacting in a extraversive way that he shared his feelings and expressed them in his art. However it took sometime to express them. He published new works of his after 13 years. He first acknowledge what was happened and started to do what he likes. He also had some arts about loneliness.
Shel Silverstein is an American poet, screenwriter, singer-song writer, author and a cartoonist. He passed away in 1999, at the age of 68. And he left behind worthy poems and writings. As all artists he had always been under the influence of variety of facts that made his name unique and memorable. He passed through some tragic experiences in his life. And those life experiences made him "different."
In his life Silverstein experienced the pain of loosing a child, and he experienced that maybe the worst way to experience. One day before from his daughter's, Shoshanna, fifth birthday his wife passed away. Sureky that was too tragic for him, and affected every inch of his life. Then after seven years, when Shoshanna was 11, his daughter died. After loosing the ones he loved he dedicated himself to his art. He kept writng poems and song lyrics. For example, one of his poems, "Where the Sidewalk Ends", was obviously dedicated to the children effected from something bad. And it is about fixing those dificulties. Here as one can see:
“There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
(goodreads)
now one can see that how Silverstein was under the effect of the back to back deaths, and how much he wants his other child to be alive.
So Shel Silverstein was kept writing after the difficulties he had passed through, and mostly wrote about the children. And most of his poems were about "protecting children". Silverstein's attitude towards to the these tragedies around him was to reacting in a extraversive way that he shared his feelings and expressed them in his art. However it took sometime to express them. He published new works of his after 13 years. He first acknowledge what was happened and started to do what he likes. He also had some arts about loneliness.