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Who can live without hope? In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march. In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people march: “Where to? what next?”
The people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum: phantom and gorilla-twisting to moan with a gargoyle mouth: “They buy me and sell me… it’s a game…
The people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum: phantom and gorilla twisting to moan with a gargoyle mouth: "They buy me and sell me...it's a game...sometime I'll
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.
The People, Yes is a book-length poem written by Carl Sandburg and published in 1936. The 300 page work is thoroughly interspersed with references to American culture, phrases, and stories (such as the legend of Paul Bunyan).
13 mar 2020 · An epic prose-poem, "The people, yes", is in many ways the culmination of Sandburg's work as a poet. He crafted it over an eight-year period, fusing the American verancular with the details of history and contemporary events.
In The People, Yes, Sandburg uses his recognized free verse style, a style influenced by his college professor, (a result of his volumes of industrial America) to illustrate the famed Abraham...
