Carl Sandburg’s outward stoicism masks a deep grief as he memorializes those killed in battle in “Grass.”
Sign up for my weekly newsletter
Tag Archives: Memorial Day
Memorial Day: I Am the Grass, I Cover All
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Grass", "Song of Myself", "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", battles, Carl Sandburg, Pete Seeger, Walt Whitman, war Comments closed
Memorializing Our Lost Innocence
Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” is not only about the soldiers who have died but how their death taints the living.
Weep, For You May Touch Them Not
In his poem “Greater Love,” Owen describes two deaths. One is the physical death of soldiers, which is tragic enough. But the other death is also heartbreaking: the death of innocence that occurs when people become intimately acquainted with war.