Sheldon Allan Silverstein, Famous Writer and Poet
Sheldon Allan Silverstein, who was known and went by Shel Silverstein, was born in Chicago, Illinois. His day of birth was on the 25th of September, 1930. As a young boy Silverstein “Would have much rather been a good baseball player or a hit with all the girls… not much I could do about that so I started to draw and write” (584, silverstein). He had started to really get to drawing at the age of twelve, and started to forget about being a baseball player. Shel Silverstein's early years, famous years, and dead years where all an important part of his road to becoming famous
After he graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1948, he went to study art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He had dropped out soon after in 1935, During the month of september, so he could join the U. S. Army.Shel Silverstein enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1950 and served in Korea and Japan, becoming a cartoonist for Stars & Stripes magazine.(biography.com.editors)You see still even while he was in the army he continued to draw cartoons and write short stories. The more Silverstein drew and wrote, the more he enjoyed it, and the more others noticed his talent.Silverstein was attempting to make a living doing something he was uncomfortable with at the time -- freelancing...But once Playboy commissioned its first …show more content…
Yet some adults and critics speculate that his poems hide darker meaning. Such as the poem A boy named sue They refer that this poem uses language in stanza one “just this old guitar and a bottle of booze.”(famous poems). Also the gory fight in stanzas 6 and 7 is not something children want to read. However the poem in the end shows that the father named his son Sue. So that he could grow to be tough in this cruel world. But of most importance, the majority of Silverstein’s poems have an important life meaning behind
Sheldon Allan Silverstein, who was known and went by Shel Silverstein, was born in Chicago, Illinois. His day of birth was on the 25th of September, 1930. As a young boy Silverstein “Would have much rather been a good baseball player or a hit with all the girls… not much I could do about that so I started to draw and write” (584, silverstein). He had started to really get to drawing at the age of twelve, and started to forget about being a baseball player. Shel Silverstein's early years, famous years, and dead years where all an important part of his road to becoming famous
After he graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1948, he went to study art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He had dropped out soon after in 1935, During the month of september, so he could join the U. S. Army.Shel Silverstein enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1950 and served in Korea and Japan, becoming a cartoonist for Stars & Stripes magazine.(biography.com.editors)You see still even while he was in the army he continued to draw cartoons and write short stories. The more Silverstein drew and wrote, the more he enjoyed it, and the more others noticed his talent.Silverstein was attempting to make a living doing something he was uncomfortable with at the time -- freelancing...But once Playboy commissioned its first …show more content…
Yet some adults and critics speculate that his poems hide darker meaning. Such as the poem A boy named sue They refer that this poem uses language in stanza one “just this old guitar and a bottle of booze.”(famous poems). Also the gory fight in stanzas 6 and 7 is not something children want to read. However the poem in the end shows that the father named his son Sue. So that he could grow to be tough in this cruel world. But of most importance, the majority of Silverstein’s poems have an important life meaning behind