给儿童的诗，配以儿童气质的插画。

Hello,ximalaya, this is Lindsay from New York, Today we will talk about the book of poems by Shel Silverstein, titled Where The Sidewalk Ends, the other one is the Giving tree.

各位听友好。今天我们来说儿童诗。儿童充满好奇心和想象力，他们喜欢的东西，已经在现实生活里磨掉了棱角的成年人未见得明白。1930年出生的美国儿童诗大家Shel Silverstein 早在70年代已经成名，但至今畅销奉为经典。他的诗作不是通常想象里过于甜腻腻偏女性化的内容，男孩子和女孩子都非常喜欢。来看看官网上是怎么描述诗集Where the sidewalk ends:

Come in…for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

他所描述的世界千奇百怪，男孩子变成电视，女孩子吃掉鲸鱼，影子可以洗掉，还能种植一个钻石花园，鞋子能飞，鳄鱼看牙医。。。匪夷所思的这些，正是孩子们的天马行空无拘无束。谢尔西尔斯坦是一个大胡子男人，他不仅创造了这些故事和文字，而且，书里的画作也大多出自他的手笔。他非常强调文字，插画，排版，甚至书大小纸质都要符合孩子符合他创造的诗的世界。出版商出书，这些他都要过目。

This collection is filled with humorous poems as well as poems that require a bit more reflection （原意是反射，倒影，这里做严肃思考讲）.These poems became a part of my childhood. I would read them through every day and marvel（纳罕称奇，漫威电影也是这个词） at the words, and laugh at the funny poems.

让我们来听一下LIndsay喜欢的

ENTER THIS DESERTED HOUSE

But please walk softly as you do.

Frogs dwell （居住）here and crickets too.

Ain’t no ceiling, only blue

Jays dwell here and sunbeams too.

Floors are flowers-take a few.

Ferns grow here and daisies too.

Whoosh, swoosh - too-whit, too-woo,

Bats dwell here and hoot owls too.

Ha-ha-ha, hee-hee, hoo-hooo,

Gnomes dwell here and goblins too.

And my child, I thought you knew

I dwell here… and so do you.

Why do you like this one?

I have always interpreted this poem as the house being the world. We live in this world and we must tread carefully to not disturb the beauty and nature that surrounds us.

这是一篇很美，描述自然是我们的家我们的房子。

A second poem that I have also enjoyed reading is quite short, titled LISTEN TO THE MUSTN’TS.

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,

Listen to the DON’TS

Listen to the SHOULDN’TS

The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS

Listen to the NEVER HAVES

Then listen close to me-

Anything can happen, child,

ANYTHING can be.

这一篇用了很多语气的不可以，不能够，不应该，不可能，就好像父母经常批评孩子时候会用的词。

This poem means, to me, that you should listen to the negatives（负面的事物） in life, but remember the positives（正面）. That way, when you listen to negatives you know how to improve it to be positive.

That is very smart interpretation（解读）. 在规矩和禁戒里，看到可能，看到未知。

今天我们说到这里。下次我们来讲SilverStein 更为出名的诗：The Giving Tree，爱心树。

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