Shel Sliverstein's "Where the side walk ends", in my opinoin is about after death. In the first stanza Silversteins writting describes the place where you go after death and how great and wonderful it is. In the second stanza he writes about the world we live in now.This is a repition poem. The line that is repeated most is "where the sidewalk ends". This line is also a metaphor meaning a place where life ends. This poem has imagry because i can imagine the sun that burns crimson bright. "Where the sidewalk ends" has a rhyme like is AA BB CC ect. I think this poem has more meaning then just being a childrens poem.
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.
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.