五年级我最喜欢的诗人的英语作文

My Favorite Poet: Shel Silverstein

When I was in fifth grade, my favorite poet was Shel Silverstein. I just loved his silly, imaginative, and funny poems! The way he used words to paint wild and wacky pictures in my mind really captured my imagination and spoke to my childhood sense of humor.

I first discovered Shel Silverstein in my school library. I was browsing the poetry section, looking for something fun to read that wasn't too serious or boring. That's when I spotted a book called \"Where the Sidewalk Ends\" with a goofy-looking boy on the cover. I checked it out on a whim and I'm so glad I did! As soon as I started reading the poems inside, I was hooked. Some of my favorite Shel Silverstein poems from that book were \"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out,\" \"Lazy Jane,\" and \"The Dingky Pinkly.\" They were all about kids doing silly things or refusing to do chores, which really cracked me up. As a ten-year-old, I thought it was hilarious how Silverstein stretched out names and made up weird words. Lines like \"The Dingky Pingky jingled and it smazed and it smelled\" made me giggle every time.

Another poem I loved was \"Homework Machine.\" It's about these lazy kids who invented a machine to do their homework for them. But then the machine goes haywire and starts scribbling all over the place! I thought it was such a funny and imaginative idea. Looking back, I think that poem captured the feeling of dreading homework so perfectly.

My absolute favorite Shel Silverstein poem, though, was \"Sick.\" It's about a kid who gets sick on all sorts of crazy things - snow cones, offering stamps, green hair ribbons. The imagery is so vivid and absurd. This part always made me burst out laughing:

\"I'll be gone for a year or two... Said theitz-a-ma-kitz-a-ma-goo. I'll be spending my tenure Deep in your mukluk with fur, Said the nitz-a-ma-kitz-a-ma-gur.\"

I had no idea what half those words even meant, but they sounded so silly! I loved how Silverstein created his own weird languages and sound effects within the poems.

After I read \"Where the Sidewalk Ends\" cover to cover multiple times, I hunted down more Shel Silverstein books at my library and book stores. I read \"A Light in the Attic,\" \"Falling Up,\" and \"Every Thing On It\" from cover to cover too. While many of the poems in those collections went over my head at age ten, I still got a huge kick out of the funny, imaginative ones.

I also really enjoyed the quirky illustrations that went along with each poem. Silverstein did his own drawings, which were just as offbeat as his writing. I'd spend hours studying the bizarre, chaotic scenes he created and all the tiny details. My friend Alex and I would see who could find the most hidden images in the pictures, like the pepper-faced man or a dancing sandwich. Shel Silverstein's poetry meant so much to me as a fifth grader because it really spoke to my sense of humor and what I found funny at that age. The silly words, wacky imagery, and poems about kid experiences like not wanting to do homework or take out the trash - it all just really clicked. Reading his books was an enormous source of joy and laughter for me.

Even today, decades later, I still have such a soft spot for Shel Silverstein's poetry. Whenever I re-read the collections, they instantly transport me back to that magical time of childhood when my biggest worries were finishing my homework on time

and taking out the garbage. Silverstein's poems make me smile just as much now as when I was ten years old.

While my reading tastes have evolved as I've gotten older, Shel Silverstein's witty, playful way with language still delights me. I can understand and appreciate his poems on a deeper level now, but they still overflow with that pure spirit of fun and irreverence. There are so many clever double meanings and subversive messages about authority hidden underneath the surface. Yet Silverstein never loses his childlike sense of mischief. I have such fond memories of reading Silverstein's books cover to cover, poring over the weird drawings, and then eagerly swapping favorite poems and silly phrases with my friends on the playground. His wild imagination and goofy humor shaped my idea of what poetry could be at a formative age. Instead of being dull and serious, poetry could be utterly whimsical and hysterical. It could celebrate the small rebellions and unconventional thinking of childhood.

That's why Shel Silverstein will always be my favorite poet from fifth grade. His clever, hilarious, one-of-a-kind poetry opened up a whole new world for me back then. It sparked my imagination, tickled my funny bone, and instilled in me a love for playful wordsmithing. I'm so grateful that quirky book with the

goofy boy on the cover first caught my eye in the library all those years ago. Silverstein's unforgettable poetry will always hold a very special place in my heart and childhood memories.