Shovel them under and let me work—
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
As Carl Sandburg's "Grass" ends, the grass again calls to be allowed to work. As readers see in the poem, the work of the grass is to cover the evidence of the tragic events that happen on battlefields so that people no longer recognize these places as battlefields. Is the work of the grass positive or negative? Why? What does it mean that the poem ends with the grass repeating its demand to be allowed to work?
Answer in at least one paragraph of 5-7 sentences. Be sure to use Textual Evidence from the poem to support your opinion.
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Shovel them under and let me work—
Shovel them under and let me work—
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