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Rhyme Scheme
Free Verse
Carl Sandburg
Metaphor- grass is like time
Personification- projects the grass to be a human like figure that does a everyday job.
"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all."
This quote is saying that it will cover up Europe's dead men and all of their mistakes.
" And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work."
This quote is saying that the grass will cover up World War One's dead men.
In the "Grass" by Carl Sandburg, the grass covers all of the past's mistakes that everyone has made.
Attitude
One of the attitudes of "Grass" is sad because it talks about men dieing.
The other attitude is determined because the grass is always covering up our mistakes.
In "Grass'', there are two shifts. It goes from death at wars to covering up the flaws of our past.
In "Grass'' by Carl Sandburg, the theme is people can't learn from their mistakes and does not notice them because nature covers them up.
The reason this poem is called "Grass" is because nature, or the grass, covers up every mistake we have made.
"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.''