The Thirsty Grass

Authors note: The poem " Summer grass" is a good poem with such as good figurative language and it really hits your soft spot.



The poem “Summer Grass” by Carl Sandburg uses a lot of figurative language to explain how the grass wishes for rain but does not receive any. In this poem Carl Sandburg uses personification and metaphors. I think this poem's  figurative language gave me a good image of the field of grass.


To begin with the poem creates a tone of sadness because the grass is wishing to the overhead stars for rain, but is not getting any. The grass is thirsty, it is aching and whispering but none comes. This is personification because the grass says it aches and whispers and it gives a human quality to the grass.

Another sentence that has figurative language in the poem is, "pouring out wishes to the overhead stars." This sentence is a metaphor. It is a metaphor because it is comparing two completely different things such as " the grass and the overhead stars", they are two things of complete different natures. 

  

 This poem will usually hit the readers soft spot and it persuades or hooks the reader to want to help. The grasses wishes aren't coming true, no one can hear the grass ache and whisper out to anyone so the grass has to wait thirsty and hot for possible water to come.  

This could lead to the point where we have a healthy earth and all of our plants are healthy instead of dirty and all of our plants are dead. We can do so much and help keep the world healthy. This poem can be an inspiration to others on a fresh clean yard or field so everything could be cut and watered. And in the poem is says the grass is asking for water but none comes because it is not raining or no one comes.