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Analysis and comments on Humming Bird Woman by Carl Sandburg

Comment 3 of 3, added on January 5th, 2012 at 12:15 AM.
PPHpShlz

Action requires knowldege, and now I can act!

Belle from Malaysia
Comment 2 of 3, added on September 6th, 2005 at 11:29 PM.

its like she woke up one morning and she doesn't know who she is...

Jacque from Philippines
Comment 1 of 3, added on February 23rd, 2005 at 10:32 PM.

I hate to unromantacize it but it sounds like a one-night stand, a cold,
one-night stand. At that moment, she was beautiful and exotic like a
hummingbird but once the passion died down, she was nothing, colorless,
insignificant (as most one-night stands are).

sandy from United States

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Information about Humming Bird Woman

Poet: Carl Sandburg
Poem: 37. Humming Bird Woman
Volume: Smoke and Steel
- V. Mist Forms
Year: 1922
Added: Feb 4 2004
Viewed: 4018 times
Poem of the Day: May 17 2008


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