How Does Sandburg Use The Speaker In 'Grass' To Comment On War?

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1. In Carl Sandburg’s poem “Grass” and in Stephen Crane’s poem “A Man Said to the Universe,” an element of the natural world is speaking. Describe the speaker in each poem. How does Sandburg use the narrator in “Grass” to comment on war? What does the reply in “A Man Said to the Universe” suggest about Crane’s view of nature? Support your answers with details from the poems.
Answer:
The speaker in Sandburg’s poem is grass, and it talks in an almost sarcastic but serious tone. The poem is portrayed in nature’s point of view. It talks about bodies covering up the grass after a battle and causing the grass be unable to “work”. The grass is fed up with humans not learning and harming the environment. It speaks on war as not only affecting humans, …show more content…

The lesson that discusses Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” calls the poem “a brief history of the African American ‘soul.’” In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool,” a small group of African Americans “sing” their song. Describe the narrator in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” the voice that speaks for all African Americans. Then describe the “Seven at the Golden Shovel” who speak in “We Real Cool.” Contrast these two voices: How does each voice speak, in terms of meter, rhyme, alliteration, and repetition?
Answer:
The narrator in The Negro Speaks of Rivers is talking in a slaves view point. As he know rivers because when slaves would be transported, waterways were the best ways of travel back then. He talks of structures that slaves built and how slaves have become one with rivers and how their roots are in rivers. The narrator in We Real Cool talking in 7 African Americans point of view. The speaker talks about how the 7 left school and become “thugs” and would die early as a result.
In The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the narrator speaks in repetition of what history slaves have with rivers. To me, the speaker doesn’t speak with any alliteration or rhyme schemes. But he does speak with a meter pattern in the poem. In We Real Cool, the narrator speak in repetition of what the 7 have done. He speaks in a rhythmic scheme and in a meter pattern. It also has alliteration in the

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