tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post6989664941020379224..comments2024-01-14T12:04:49.488-05:00Comments on Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking: Brian Turner on Carl Sandburg's "Grass" (from Poetry Daily)Philip Metreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-18349826919250119682010-05-19T21:47:12.416-04:002010-05-19T21:47:12.416-04:00Thanks, R. Sonoff. Please do read the book, BEHIN...Thanks, R. Sonoff. Please do read the book, BEHIND THE LINES: WAR RESISTANCE POETRY ON THE AMERICAN HOMEFRONT, while you're dissertating, for another voice, and other voices on war.Philip Metreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-9097787686994295312010-05-17T02:49:10.648-04:002010-05-17T02:49:10.648-04:00I'm writing my Phd thesis on war and poetry an...I'm writing my Phd thesis on war and poetry and, being a veteran of war myself (although not from the US) I find both Sandburg's poem and Turner's comments to be equally beautiful.<br /><br />This is a great blog, I'll be sure to check it out more.<br /><br />http://idioticalinvestigations.blogspot.com/2010/05/there-something-absolutely-beautiful.htmlRon BThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211959916764959806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-20007454425349772392010-04-16T07:09:14.938-04:002010-04-16T07:09:14.938-04:00I like how the grass can be read as a little frust...I like how the grass can be read as a little frustrated (or confident?) with human grief. "Let me work" is the sort of thing that an annoyed dad might say to an impatient child.Philip Metreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-51427544878616010432010-04-15T15:47:30.731-04:002010-04-15T15:47:30.731-04:00My English class is studying contemporary poetry a...My English class is studying contemporary poetry and I chose to research Carl Sandburg. I just analyzed "Grass" and I thought it was interesting how Sandburg personifies, and gives the grass a voice. I think that it makes the poem stand out more than others. After reading this poem, I was left thinking for a while. It seems like Sandburg is good at forcing people to think and consider things through his poetry.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06002643895944385450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-15264861878391541492010-04-13T20:24:32.521-04:002010-04-13T20:24:32.521-04:00When I was 14, a teacher showed my four or five po...When I was 14, a teacher showed my four or five poems by Carl Sandburg -- "Grass" was one of them -- and it was either that day or that week, because of having read Sandburg's poems, that I decided to be a poet and started writing poems myself. That was a little over forty years ago...<br /><br />There's also the haiku of Basho, of which I've seen many translations -- here's Rexroth's translation:<br /><br />Summer grass<br />Where warriors dream.<br /><br />Thanks for posting this.Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-3108904893757071312010-04-12T08:17:00.345-04:002010-04-12T08:17:00.345-04:00Cali, definitely Sandburg is building on Whitman, ...Cali, definitely Sandburg is building on Whitman, who is building on Isaiah.Philip Metreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-23475243412873285022010-04-11T21:38:31.570-04:002010-04-11T21:38:31.570-04:00I also love Whitman's Section 6 from "Son...I also love Whitman's Section 6 from "Song of Myself' which he asked what is the grass and answered grass "is the handkerchief of the Lord/..../And now it seems to be the beautiful uncut hair of graves/Tenderly will I use you curling grass,/It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men/...../What do you think has become of the young and the old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children?/They are alive and well somewhere/The smallest sprout shows there really is no death./<br /><br />Anyway, Whitman's meditations on grass probably inspired Sandberg. Praise both of them.California Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01215264068422830371noreply@blogger.com