Analyzing Carl Sandburg's Poem

that the topsoil beneath it was entirely exposed to the wind. Chase, ..., states, “Grass it what

Whitman uses the grass as a metaphor to imply that all people are connected. Whitman uses the grass to represent things he cannot explicitly name. People are all different, individual, but the blades function together. Everyone is needed to make up the grass; one blade cannot stand-alone. The grass encompasses all of America, regardless of race, gender, or religion. Grass grows everywhere there is water and touches everyone. This is one of the ways Whitman seeks to appeal to everyone through language.

And the grass knows that no matter how much time passes it will always have work to do. Wars come round again.

The image that is firstly drawn in the first stanza is that of a blade of grass amid a field and the

The poem describes the weather and its effect on cotton flower by pointing out the dying branches and vanishing cotton. The image of insufficiency, struggle and death parallel the oppression of African American race. The beginning of the poem illustrates the struggle and suffering of the cotton flower; which represent the misery of African Americans and also gives an idea that there is no hope for them. But at the end the speaker says “brown eyes that loves without a trace of fear/ Beauty so sudden for that time of year” (lines 13-14). This shows the rise of the African American race, and their fight against racism. The author used mood, tone and

In the poem, Grass, Robert Sandburg gives a personification to the grass, and gives us a strong message about war. Sandburg mentions several wars and how after many years nature has done a good job on heal its fields after being extremely damaged due to war, but the pain that leaves to us is something that will never go away.

In stanza six of the poem "Song of Myself", by Walt Whitman, he poses the question "What is the grass?" I believe that grass is a metaphor for the cycle of life. Throughout the poem Whitman points out images that grass could represent. All of these images stem from the life and death that we come to expect in our lifetime. During your life you will experience death, it at times surrounds you, but if you look past the grief and look to the beauty you will see that it is a cycle that keeps our world in balance. The images of flags, tears, children and older people that are torn from the ones they love, but only to soon return to other lost ones are all parts of Walt Whitman's

Poetry encompasses of words put together to come up with a meaning. Henry Reeds a renowned poet came up with the poem the naming of parts as a series. This paper seeks to bring out the meaning of the poem, the stylistic devices use and the themes used in regards to the title of the poem.

Ted Kooser, the thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for his honest and accessible writing. Kooser’s poem “A Spiral Notebook” was published in 2004, in the book Good Poems for Hard Times, depicting a spiral notebook as something that represents more than its appearance. Through the use of imagery, diction, and structure, Ted Kooser reveals the reality of a spiral notebook to be a canvas of possibilities and goes deeper to portray the increasing complexities in life as we age.

The dark vowels used for the mower blades and humans, contravenes the light vowels used for the rat and the weeds, which seems to imply that our technology is gloomy and brings only sadness by killing things full of life, such as the rat. Words such as “stones” and “hones” (1,2) are ever present when the author talks about the mower. These words

Whitman uses Grass to symbolize hope, growth and death. In the first section of the poem, Whitman wants to look at a “spear” of grass. The grass is now representing weapons and danger in the surroundings of one’s life, but still overcoming the obstacles to love one. Also, grass was a great representation of the resurrection of someone; the grass grows from the decomposition in the soil. The way grass represents growth and death is exactly what the readers go through every day. Death happens every day and grass represents that though death happens “we” can rebuild and flourish. Grass can grow through the cracks of concrete; it can grow high and thick above the decomposition below. It is representation of us in society and how we can overcome these obstacles, the same way Whitman writes about and

The poem begins with a man going to “turn the grass”. In this time period grass was cut using a scythe in the early morning, while grass was still wet. After this was done another laborer had to scatter the grass to let it dry. As the other laborer is going out to the field, there is no one else around him, he is completely alone, until a single silent butterfly crosses paths. The worker witnesses the butterfly looking for flowers, and eventually finds a gathering of them, which amuses the author. The author begins to ponder what was going through the other workers head to make him decide to leave the flowers intact. He begins to sense the beauty that the other worker must have felt when he left the flowers

This poem is about how nature, grass growing, has to restore itself and cover up the destruction that the humans left. The speaker lists the battlefields to show how nature covers up a disaster the humans made. Humans usually forget that the battles actually happen and they end up forgetting about it, then it keeps happening after that.

Poets use many ways when they want to communicate something using poems. Poems are used as a means of passing ideas, information and expression of feelings. This has made the poets to use the natural things and images that people can relate with so that they can make these poems understandable. The most common forms of writing that are used by the poets are the figurative language for example imagery and metaphors. In addition, the poets use the natural landscape in their attempt to explore the philosophical questions. Therefore, this essay will explore the forms that have been used by the poets in writing poems using the natural landscape. The essay will be based on poems such as ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ by

The sunset was not spectacular that day. The vivid ruby and tangerine streaks that so often caressed the blue brow of the sky were sleeping, hidden behind the heavy mists. There are some days when the sunlight seems to dance, to weave and frolic with tongues of fire between the blades of grass. Not on that day. That evening, the yellow light was sickly. It diffused softly through the gray curtains with a shrouded light that just failed to illuminate. High up in the treetops, the leaves swayed, but on the ground, the grass was silent, limp and unmoving. The sun set and the earth waited.