Answer the following questions for the poem... GRASS- CARL SANDBURG
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 the passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am grass.
Let me work.

Question 1.
Where is the crucial moment where the action shifts?
2. What do you make of this change?
3. Where do you see examples of personification (state of personification and explain what is being personified)
4. What is the TONE of the poem? (I hear 2 distinct tones)
5. What are the possible THEMES of the poem? (A couple work here...)
6. What is the author saying about these themes?