english project

1. 5.05
Samantha Brandt

2. Languages by Carl Sandburg
Sandburg lived from 1878-1967 in
Midwestern United States. This was a
time of Urbanization in America.
Resulting in mass amounts of immigrants.
Which resulted in a blending of cultures
and communities.
He writes of this blending of languages
and crossing of borders in his poem.
“It is a river, this language,
Once in a thousand years
Breaking a new course
Changing its way to the ocean.
It is mountain effluvia
Moving to valleys
And from nation to nation
Crossing borders and mixing.”

3. The River Merchants Wife: A letter
by: Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound lived from 1885-
1972, and he wrote this poem
in 1917. The struggle for
women’s rights was at the
forefront of politics in the late
19th century and early 20th
century. The 19th Amendment
,which gave women equal
voting rights, was passed in
1919. The River Merchants Wife
is written by a lonely wife who
has not seen her husband in
five months.
“At sixteen you departed,
You went into far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.”

4. sources
• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174305
• http://images.slideplayer.com/22/6334704/slides/slide_53.jpg
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Carl_Sandburg_NYWTS.jpg
• http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Ezra_Pound_2.jpg
• http://fromplaygroundstopolitics.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/20130820-082013.jpg