4. Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstien

            Where The Sidewalk Ends is a strange poem that gets you thinking. The meaning of the poem is so vast that it can trigger your endless imagination. Our endless imagination resembles the end of the sidewalk. The sidewalk's end is like imagination itself. It is the end of the sidewalk and the beginning of the street. It's endless as is our imagination. No one knows what's at the bottom, and no one can see to the other side. Only the children go to the end because they are the only ones who are crazy enough, or imaginative enough to feel safe at the end of the sidewalk. Adults don't go to the end because they don't have the imagination that kids do. Also at the end of the sidewalk there are strange things that only occur in a child's imagination, such as the ,"peppermint wind", or the "moon-birds", or even the "soft, white grass". The sidewalk's end is a child's imaginative place where strange nonsensical things are, and where strange things happen. Also, at the end of the poem, it says that the children know where the sidewalk ends. The children, not the adults. This poem is very hard to understand and I wouldn't have understood if it wasn't for the internet, and Reverieb612, who explained the meaning.













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