“Where the Sidewalk Ends” explication Life is one of the things you can never get back. You can never re-do it, or you can’t get a second chance. “Where the sidewalk ends” is a symbolic poem, symbolizing where the sidewalk or life ends and also to be a little bit out of the ordinary. Throughout the poem, the speaker is displaying meaningful imagery and symbolism. A broad course of action to be different and joyful, like children. The speaker starts in the first stanza by visualizing a place where the sidewalk ends. Then a shift, “Let us leave this place”, a place that is somewhat like the street. A place where the children point out that people should leave to go to a place of joy and amusement. The speaker suggest that we should be like children, lively instead of being dull.
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The sidewalk as I said before is symbolizing a journey and it’s end as the end of the journey and for something else to happen. It also represents a boring routine because all streets look the same and are the same. The children as happy, joyful, and unique people, which is something opposite of the routine. “Grass grows soft and white”(3), “sun burns crimson bright”(4), “moon-bird rests from his flight”(5), “to cool the peppermint wind”(6) all symbolize things the opposite of what to expect near the sidewalk. It sort of means that you have to do what children do, something different. The concrete sidewalk can contrast the imagery that has been listed. There are many more lines of imagery such as “Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black/ and the dark streets winds and bends./ Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow.”(7-9) It means that we should leave the streets. There are examples of alliteration in line 3, “grass grows” and “we'll walk”(13). There is consonance in “grass grows”(3) and “soft and white”
The sidewalk as I said before is symbolizing a journey and it’s end as the end of the journey and for something else to happen. It also represents a boring routine because all streets look the same and are the same. The children as happy, joyful, and unique people, which is something opposite of the routine. “Grass grows soft and white”(3), “sun burns crimson bright”(4), “moon-bird rests from his flight”(5), “to cool the peppermint wind”(6) all symbolize things the opposite of what to expect near the sidewalk. It sort of means that you have to do what children do, something different. The concrete sidewalk can contrast the imagery that has been listed. There are many more lines of imagery such as “Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black/ and the dark streets winds and bends./ Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow.”(7-9) It means that we should leave the streets. There are examples of alliteration in line 3, “grass grows” and “we'll walk”(13). There is consonance in “grass grows”(3) and “soft and white”