Those Feelings You Get

Author’s Note:  I will be analyzing the poem “Summer Grass” by, Carl Sandburg and talking about what figurative language he used. I will also explain what this poem reminds me of.

Everybody has emotion and feelings, either there good or bad everyone gets some sort of feeling. In the poem “Summer Grass” by, Carl Sandburg, the way he wrote this poem was as if the grass has feelings just like us and will do whatever to get what it wants. 

In the poem he used a lot of  figurative language such as  personification and hyperbole to really show the readers how the grass and rain were looking and feeling like. He mainly used personification  throughout his poem since he is talking about the feelings of the grass. In this stanza “Summer grass aches and whispers” this shows how what the grass is doing and feeling. This is a good example of personification because he is saying how grass is aching and whispers and since grass don’t literally do that and people can this shows how he is saying the object as if had the feelings if a person.  The author’s tone is really mysterious by the way he describes the rain and the movements of the grass makes you wonder of the rain and how it slowly comes down.

Since the tone is mysterious he also added hyperbole in his poem to really show and describe the way the grass and the rain are feeling so he could exaggerate to put a vivid picture in the readers mind .  When he said “It wants something: it calls and sings; it pours” the grass can’t literally call or sing,  what he is really trying to say in here is how the grass is wanting something so he just emphasis of saying the grass is calling and singing to show it how the grass is in need of water. That’s show how that would be an example of a hyperbole. The author’s tone really impacts this because it sets the whole mood for this poem by being mysterious and making the readers really think about the poem.

The overall impact the figurative language had on this piece can really show a clear picture in the readers head. The way he used the language really helped to express  what his meaning was in this poem. The way the author explained how the grass wants rain that just makes the poem a little gloomy because when we think of rain we think of a sad day and not exciting and just putting rain in the  poem can really  effect the overall tone because the poem won’t be as happy and cheerful and even though it might have a cheerful tone to the title they always have some sort of twist in the story.

           

Since this story may have a twist to it, this poem reminds me of how little kids act today. Just as he said in the poem “it calls and sings; it pours out wished to the overhead stars”.  To me this is saying how it is pretty much whining to the sky to have rain pour down upon it. Just how kids will keep on whining and do whatever It takes  to their parents  to get whatever they want like a toy or candy. Just how the grass loves the rain, that’s the same feeling the kids have about their candy and toys.

Even though the poem “Summer Grass” may sounds like a fun and cheerful poem, it really changed the meaning when he wrote about it. Since he used a lot of  imagery and hyperbole in his poem to really show and express to the readers on how the grass really does have feelings and when it gets what it wants it gets happy as a child with mountains of candy.