Sandburg, Carl. "Pennsylvania".

Summary

The speaker says that he has been to Pennsylvania, to the Monongahela and Susquehanna, and around the Appalachians. He simply describes that he has seen police, boys playing marbles, tough workers handling coal and iron, and their pale wives.

He concludes with the announcement that he has drawn colour studies in crimson and violet.

Analysis

- a short descriptive poem in free verse

- bears features of both Imagism (form) and the Whitmanian tradition (content)

- the use of Native American place names renders the poem especially melodious

- portrays the nature and the people with equal attention and pays tribute to both