Poetry paloza
Silverstein
Silverstein the basics
He was born in Chicago Illinois In September 25 in 1903
He was a artist at the age of 12 and Passed college in the Chicago academy of fine arts
He drop out of college to join the army September 1953
While he was at U.S. bases he drew cartoons and published in the U.S. stripes magazine
cartoon before pomes
He soon left the military and began summiting cartoons to magazines and his work was being published in magazines like Look sports illustrated and the week
His work became famous so he published a book Take ten and became known globally
He started a world notebook and became even more famous
the poet in me
pomes
in 1947 he came up with his first poetry book "where the sidewalk ends" witch it was a children's poem book is was consider a humors and silly it also came in black and white illustration. But the most famous book he published was the giving tree.
Silversteins terms and awards
Some of his poetic terms are imagery,personify and foreshadowing
Some of his awards are
The 1970 Grammy award for best contrey song
The 1985 Grammy for the best children album
And the 2005 quill award for the best children liastarted book
Why shel
The reason why I chose shel is because I rember reading some of his poems and loving them and I also have a special connection to the giving tree. I selcted these poems because I thought they would be a great example of how silly his poems are and cheer up anybody who watches them