Grass

This poem is short and sweet. At first glance, just by looking at the title, "Grass," I will be honest in saying I though that it might be about some illegal activity. After reading though, I discovered that it has a whole different meaning that is far from what I thought. Throughout the poem it mentions various places. These places are famous historical ones. By having knowledge of what took place at some, like Gettysburg and Waterloo, I inferred that what these places all have in common is a great loss of life. After each place is mentioned, the grass is mentioned as well, "I am grass; I cover all." Grass is a simple element of nature that is everywhere! The pattern in the poem leds to the belief that the poem's message suggests that the grass covers up the tragedies that happen in human nature. It literally does keep growing and overtime noone would know what horendous event took place on that land. Its almost as if nature is telling human nature to not worry "just let me do my work."