sâmbătă, 29 martie 2014

Shel Silverstein Poem Analysis 5

By Shel Silverstein
The poem is so funny and amusing that it immediately catches your attention. It gives simple instructions on how to make a sandwich and everything looks normal up to the point a hippopotamus is to be added onto the bread, with mayonnaise and an onion ring. But the idea itself is so original that you start wondering about such a possibility.
The attitude of the writer is clearly an optimistic one, his main goal being that of “showing” us everything could be possible as long as we allow our imagination and creativity run freely.
If the first ten lines of the poem tell us what we need to make such a sandwich, without any problem at all, the last two ones, however, do admit that there might be something to cause us difficulties – the biting of the sandwich.

I find this poem very entertaining and I would recommend it to people of all ages. It is, without any doubt, the kind of poem that you will easily remember as it is funny, imaginative and has a simple rhyming. 

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