My favourite poem

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

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.

1. The figurative language is used in this poem as hyperbole (Past the pits where the asphalt flowers go)

2. I like this poem because it is about a place where things are better than they are here.The poet uses words like "peppermint wind" to show the childlike glow that this imaginary place has”. These words are setting the mood for our imaginations to take over and think of an amazingly perfect place. The poet is trying to get us away from the "place where the smoke blows black " .He is saying that we should free ourselves from the world full of pollution and concrete and go to the beautiful place where the sidewalk ends. He is saying that if we could all believe in things like the sidewalk coming to an end in a magical place we would stop with so much of our polluting and wastefulness.