By Shel Silverstein
This 12-line poem
presents itself as a recipe for a fantastic sandwich. But as you are given the
instructions on how to make it, an unexpected ingredient is mentioned: “One hippopotamus”. But to the
writer, not the hippopotamus was the problem, but how to eat this sandwich.
The minute we begin to read the poem, we let our imagination
fly freely. There is no limit, no boundary and everything becomes possible in
this fantasy world that the poet introduces us in. We are, in other words,
invited to see things from a completely different perspective and enrich our
creativity.
In the first part of the poem nothing seems to be unnatural,
not even the key ingredient (the hippopotamus) but in the end the poet
expresses concern about “biting” the sandwich.
Children and adults alike would surely enjoy this poem as it
is an encouragement to being creative and imaginative. It is to me one of the
poems that once you read you will always remember due to the easy, funny
rhyming and the original idea of a hippo sandwich.
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