Buffalo Dusk - A poem by Carl Sandburg


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Carl Sandburg - Buffalo Dusk

THE BUFFALOES are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and how they pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs, their great heads
down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
And the buffaloes are gone.        5

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Poet: Carl Sandburg (Carl Sandburg Art) Poem: 5. Buffalo Dusk Volume: Smoke and Steel - IX. Haze Year: Published/Written in 1922 Comment 1 of 1, added on October 18th, 2005 at 10:55 PM. This short poem, almost as short as "Haiku", reveals Sandburg's knowledge of the subject, his depth of feeling, and (being written in 1922) is obviously a "lament", for the great loss of the American Bison. Actually, this poem is not far from Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", is it?? An un-biased, outside observer (say, an extra-terrestrial) would be well-founded in concluding that the human race is a "cancer" upon this planet... -Mark Tulk Bright Moon Lansing, Michigan, 18 OCT 05 Mark Tulk Bright Moon from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Buffalo Dusk, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Carl Sandburg with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Carl Sandburg Poem: 5. Buffalo Dusk Volume: Smoke and Steel - IX. Haze Year: Published/Written in 1922 Last read: Dec 11 2009, 8:42AM Viewed 6603 times. Added on October 18th, 2005 at 10:55 PM.

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