The first one is "Grass" by Carl Sandburg. This is a poem about the evil of the war. It is told from a nature's point of view, the grass is who is speaking. It is very symbolic - the nature is seen like a mother, who covers all what her bad children had done. She cries, but full of tears still does her job. The poem was written in 1918, the last year of World War One. People were devastated , the general mood of the society, tired of War, was very pessimistic. The structure of the poem reflects the situation after the war- the total mental devast

There are plenty ways to use nature for expression of feelings, life experiences; and many poets do so. I deliberately examined in this essay two American poets, contemporaries, who used nature in their poems differently to make the contrast clear. Both poems present interesting examples of the American modern poetry, in which nature is dominating.

ation and destruction of the ordinary people. It has neither rhythm, nor rhyme, it looks like a short conversation piece, but it's content is very poetic. The poem is simple, but it is well understood by both intellectuals and ordinary people as well. The phrases are short, but clearly expressed and easy understandable. There battles mentioned in the poem are well known, and the author deliberately uses battles from different countries, in order to touch more people all over the world. Sandburg sees the grass as an allegor

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