Question

Sometimes readers of poems equate the speaker with the author. In Carl Sandburg's poem "Grass" why do readers know that the speaker cannot be the author?
a)The speaker is given a specific name.
b)There seems to be no speaker in the poem.
c)The speaker is clearly dead.
d)The speaker is the grass.

Answer 1

Carl Sandburg's "Grass" is a three-stanza ballad in free verse with straightforward words communicating a significant message. Free verse disregards standard tenets of meter for the rhythms of customary discussion. Basically, free verse frees verse from adjustment to inflexible metrical tenets that manage push designs and the quantity of syllables per line.