I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.
I step very softly,
I walk very slow,
I can't do a handstand--
I might overflow,
So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said--
I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head.
Shel Silverstein was born on September 25, 1930, in Chicago. Silverstein studied music and established himself as a musician and composer, writing songs including “A Boy Named Sue,” popularized by Johnny Cash, and Loretta Lynn’s “One’s on the Way.” Besides being wildly popular, The Giving Tree is one of the most discussed children’s books of all time. When the 1970s came to an end, Silverstein would continue releasing memorable children’s titles, among them A Light in the Attic (1981), a collection of poems and drawings, which went on to win several awards, and The Missing Piece Meets the Big O (1981), a sequel to The Missing Piece.
The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively. In this case Silverstein is giving a description of the rain falling over his face.
In this poem Silverstein is talking about the rain falling over him and how soothing it is to feel it. He talks about not being able to do anything crazy because the rain is keeping him calm and from doing something regrettable.
I chose this photo of rain because in the poem Silverstein talks about the soothing feeling of it pouring over his face while he walked in the park
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/shel_silverstein/poems/14833 http://www.biography.com/people/shel-silverstein-9483912?page=2 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/imagery