Tuesday, April 10, 2012

"How Much?" by Carl Sandburg

In "How Much?" by Carl Sandburg, there's a very interesting meaning. It talks about how the speaker might love someone more than a million bushels today, but tomorrow the speaker might not even love them more than a half a bushel. It talks about how there's no real way to measure love, like how there's no real way to measure the weather, and how love is extremely unpredictable. Since the wind can't measure the weather, you can't measure love. You just have to be able to ride the roller coaster it takes you on, one day or bushel at a time.

1 comment:

  1. Love the last sentence especially!

    Try using "the speaker" instead of first person "I" as you discuss/analyze the poem.

    Nice job on a poem that you initially found confusing!

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