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The Grass
This poem is spoken by the grass, and it's all about the job that the grass does—and this job is growing. But the grass is a symbol of so much more. It represents new life after the death on the battlefield. This isn't necessarily a good thing, though, because the grass has the ability to erase the signs of death and destruction with its awesome green lusciousness. And for Sandburg, the erasure of history is most definitely a problem.
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