Sometimes readers of poems equate the speaker with the author. In Carl Sandburg's poem "Grass" why do readers know that the speaker cannot be the author? The speaker is given a specific name. There seems to be no speaker in the poem. The speaker is clearly dead. The speaker is the grass.

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24 August, 01:01

Sometimes readers of poems equate the speaker with the author. In Carl Sandburg's poem "Grass" why do readers know that the speaker cannot be the author? The speaker is given a specific name. There seems to be no speaker in the poem. The speaker is clearly dead. The speaker is the grass.

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Zachary Patrick · Answer 1

The speaker is the grass.

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Sometimes readers of poems equate the speaker with the author. In Carl Sandburg's poem "Grass" readers know that the speaker cannot be the author because the speaker is the grass.

Harley Griffin · Answer 2

Harley Griffin 24 August, 01:30

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the speaker is the grass