By Carl Sandburg

What confuses me the most is…….. Summarize it as you understand it…… As the author 2-3 questions about it. What makes it hard to understand?

“Statistics” Key Words feelings Ideas Images Structure Frame of Reference Which bubble is the most important and why?

Why does the author use sarcophagus and mausoleum? Are the words effective? How does the author use historical context to make his point? What differences exist between 20 th wars and earlier wars? To what statistics does the title refer? Whose point of view is the poem written? Why?

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What confuses me the most is…….. Summarize it as you understand it…… As the author 2-3 questions about it. What makes it hard to understand?

“Grass” Key Words feelings Ideas Images Structure Frame of Reference Which bubble is the most important and why?

How does grass function as a powerful central image in the poem? Who is the speaker? What was the author’s purpose in using this voice? Who are the passengers? What is the author’s attitude about the war? Why? How do you know? What things change and stay the same in the poem?

Organize and plan your ideas. The final, edited copy should be ¾ - 1 ½ pages long. These two poems were actually written by Sandburg in response to World War I, more than twenty years before the events of World War II. How do the poems show the durability of the concept of war? And to the concept of Challenges?