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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GARGOYLE, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a mouth jeering. A smile of melted red iron ran over it
Last Line: Fist is pounding and pounding, and the mouth answering.
First Line: I saw a mouth jeering. A smile of melted red iron ran over it
Last Line: Fist is pounding and pounding, and the mouth answering.
I SAW a mouth jeering. A smile of melted red iron ran over it. Its
laugh was full of nails rattling. It was a child's dream of a mouth.
A fist hit the mouth: knuckles of gun-metal driven by an electric
wrist and shoulder. It was a child's dream of an arm.
The fist hit the mouth over and over, again and again. The mouth bled
melted iron, and laughed its laughter of nails rattling.
And I saw the more the fist pounded the more the mouth laughed. The
fist is pounding and pounding, and the mouth answering.
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