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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A TALL MAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The mouth of this man is a gaunt strong mouth
Last Line: It is the many he knows, the gaunt strong hunger of the many.
First Line: The mouth of this man is a gaunt strong mouth
Last Line: It is the many he knows, the gaunt strong hunger of the many.
THE mouth of this man is a gaunt strong mouth.
The head of this man is a gaunt strong head.
The jaws of this man are bone of the Rocky Mountains, the
Appalachians.
The eyes of this man are chlorine of two sobbing oceans,
Foam, salt, green, wind, the changing unknown.
The neck of this man is pith of buffalo prairie, old longing and new
beckoning of corn belt or cotton belt,
Either a proud Sequoia trunk of the wilderness
Or huddling lumber of a sawmill waiting to be a roof.
Brother mystery to man and mob mystery,
Brother cryptic to lifted cryptic hands,
He is night and abyss, he is white sky of sun, he is the head of the
people.
The heart of him the red drops of the people,
The wish of him the steady gray-eagle crag-hunting flights of the
people.
Humble dust of a wheel-worn road,
Slashed sod under the iron-shining plow,
These of service in him, these and many cities, many borders, many
wrangles between Alaska and the Isthmus, between the Isthmus and the
Horn, and east and west of Omaha, and east and west of Paris, Berlin,
Petrograd.
The blood in his right wrist and the blood in his left wrist run with
the right wrist wisdom of the many and the left wrist wisdom of the
many.
It is the many he knows, the gaunt strong hunger of the many.
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