"Theme in Yellow," first published in Chicago Poems (1916), is all about pumpkins and Halloween. Already you're probably nodding your head thinking, yeah, I could dig this. Making things even better is the fact that the speaker imagines himself as a pumpkin, so the whole poem is told through a pumpkin's perspective. And we know you always wanted...More
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength...More
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."
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"Theme in Yellow," first published in Chicago Poems (1916), is all about pumpkins and Halloween. Already you're probably nodding your head thinking, yeah, I could dig this. Making things even better is the fact that the speaker imagines himself as a pumpkin, so the whole poem is told through a pumpkin's perspective. And we know you always wanted to know what those pumpkins were thinking around Halloween, so here's your chance to gather round, tell a few ghost stories, and just have a poetically delicious time—of it all without a bunch of "ear wigglings."
Carl Sandburg
