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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Kasey Bird

15 July, 09:58

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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Zain Parsons · 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.

Cheyanne Harding · Answer 2

Cheyanne Harding 15 July, 11:24

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the speaker is the grass