... the narrator and the girl of the poem and it is daunting. The speaker narrates you into the next stanza and begins the first line with the word "splits" that is onomatopoetic with the tearing of the girl in every way. The sound of the word causes the reader to envision and feel what has taken place in the metaphor "splits the green girlwood of her body". Another reference to the virginity of the girl child in the ... poem - "green" as in not ripe, not mature, not ready young girl and "girlwood" instead of piece of wood being split open - the girl's young body was split open like a piece...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the narrator and the girl of the poem and it is daunting. The speaker narrates you into the next stanza and begins the first line with the word "splits" that is onomatopoetic with the tearing of the girl in every way. The sound of the word causes the reader to envision and feel what has taken place in the metaphor "splits the green girlwood of her body". Another reference to the virginity of the girl child in the ... poem - "green" as in not ripe, not mature, not ready young girl and "girlwood" instead of piece of wood being split open - the girl's young body was split open like a piece...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... to live because of immigrants coming to America for a better way of life and also the Great Depression. Sandburg's parents came from Sweden to Galesburg, Illinois in 1871 and gave birth to their second child on January 6, 1878, Carl August (Crowder 21). Sandburg grew up speaking Swedish and ... English. Eager to be brought into American Society, he "Americanized" his name. Sandburg began to call himself Charles instead of Carl because he felt Carl would mean "one more Swede boy," while Charles filled the ... character sketches, all tied together with a free-verse mixture of humor, comme...

• Word Count: 2533
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School