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Poet: Carl Sandburg
Poem: 9.
Stars, Songs, Faces
Volume: Smoke and Steel
- V. Mist Forms
Year: Published/Written in 1922
Poem of the Day:
Dec 17 2008
Comment 2 of 2, added on April 7th, 2013 at 4:01 AM.
Stars, Songs, Faces
The title represents three words, three wishes which are difficult to achieve. Finding the consonance there is easy to do. In the both stanzas, many repetitions can be seen including, "gather", "let" and "open your hand".
I suppose, the poem is against the materialism simply because it conveys that although some wishes are hard to achieve, they are easy to lose. After passing away, we have to "Let the stars and songs go".
Fahim Afarin Asadi from Iran
Comment 1 of 2, added on June 23rd, 2008 at 1:45 PM.
I think the first stanza of this poem refers to the endless wishes of human beings.
The second stanza represents that these wishes are not permanent because even if we have all the riches of the world,we will have to leave them for good.
Farideh Abed from Iran
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The title represents three words, three wishes which are difficult to achieve. Finding the consonance there is easy to do. In the both stanzas, many repetitions can be seen including, "gather", "let" and "open your hand".
I suppose, the poem is against the materialism simply because it conveys that although some wishes are hard to achieve, they are easy to lose. After passing away, we have to "Let the stars and songs go".
Fahim Afarin Asadi from Iran