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Smart
By: Shel Silverstein
My dad gave me a one dollar bill 'Cause I'm his smartest son, And I swapped it for two shiny quarters 'Cause two is more than one! And then I took the quarters And traded them to Lou For three dimes-I guess she don't know that three is more than two! Just then, along came old blind Bates And just 'cause he can't see He gave me four nickels for my three dimes, And four is more than three! I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs Down at the seed-feed store, and the fool gave me five pennies for them, And five is more than four! And then I went and showed my dad, and he went red in the cheeks And closed his eyes and shook his head- Too proud of me to speak! Shel Silverstein
I chose this picture because It represented the character of the story holding the money that his father gave him. This picture also reminded me of my brother every week when he gets his allowence and triumphs over it.
WHY I CHOSE THIS POEM I chose this poem because it was funny and made me laugh, but also taught me a valuable lesson which was that quantity doesn't necessarily mean more. The boy in the poem traded his one dollar for something worth 20 times less of it. I also chose this poem because it reminded me of when I used to play with marbles with my cousins and I traded my big marble with 2 of his small ones which was worth less.
POETIC DEVICES 1.) Alliteration (ex. paragraph 3: old blind bates) 2.) Rhyme scheme (ex. abcb, abcb...)
