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There are no handles upon a language
Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance.
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.
Languages die like rivers.
Words wrapped round your tongue today
And broken to shape of thought
Between your teeth and lips speaking
Now and today
Shall be faded hieroglyphics
Ten thousand years from now.
Sing—and singing—remember
Your song dies and changes
And is not here to-morrow
Any more than the wind
Blowing ten thousand years ago

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Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg was an Swedish-American poet born in 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois and died in 1967 in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Sandburg won several awards for his writing and other work, including three different Pulitzer Prizes, a Robert Frost Medal, and even a Grammy.

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"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams

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"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams

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so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white chickens.

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William Carlos Williams is a Puerto Rican-American Poet and physician born in 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. He died in 1963, also in Rutherford, New Jersey. He won several awards for his writing and maintained a steady job as the chief of pediatrics in Passiac General Hospital.

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"Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."

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"Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."

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- President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967

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What influenced the author to write this poem?

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What influenced the author to write this poem?

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Sandburg was inspired to write Languages because of immigration. Mass immigration was huge during the 20th Century, when people from all around the world came to America for better opportunities. He knew English was seen as a "universal" language in America. The poem depicts a world joined together by just one language, where all others are forgotten with the passage of time.

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What influenced the Author to write this poem?

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What influenced the Author to write this poem?

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While many believe "The Red Wheelbarrow" was inspired Williams' time taking care of a very ill little girl as a physician, Williams actually revealed his poem by inspired by a fisherman named Marshall who felt he was invulnerable to cold. Williams stated he had been in Marshall's backyard when he noticed a red wheelbarrow surrounded by a group of white chickens. His close friendship with Marshall and his son is what inspired the poem's diction.

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William Carlos Williams