The poem I am the People the Mob by Carl Sandburg. I was trying to understand the main theme throughout this poem. Can anyone explain the theme and speaker of the poem. Btw, this is not for homework. I juts wanted to understand the poem.
P.S- I know this is in the wrong category, just wanted more people to answer.
2007-04-16
11:53:53
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I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass.
Do you know that all the great work of the world is
done through me?
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the
world's food and clothes.
I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons
come from me and the Lincolns. They die. And
then I send forth more Napoleons and Lincolns.
I am the seed ground. I am a prairie that will stand
for much plowing. Terrible storms pass over me.
I forget. The best of me is sucked out and wasted.
I forget. Everything but Death comes to me and
makes me work and give up what I have. And I
forget.
Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a few red
drops for history to remember. Then--I forget.
When I, the People, learn to remember, when I, the
People, use the lessons of yesterday and no longer
forget who robbed me last year, who played me for
a fool--then there will be no speaker in a all the world
say th
2007-04-16
14:12:27 ·
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