No to the Constitution when a hindrance
Yes to man as a struggler amid illusions,
Each man fated to answer for himself:
Which of the faiths and illusions of mankind
Must I choose for my own sustaining light
To bring me beyond the present wilderness?
Lincoln? Was he a poet?
And did he write verses?
“I have not willingly planted a thorn
in any man's bosom.”
I shall do nothing through malice: what
I deal with is too vast for malice.”
Death was in the air.
So was birth.
Sandburg again makes use of symbols with death and birth to portray Licoln’s greatest accomplishments. He uses death to represent the end of something, the end of slavery in America (emancipation proclamation), and birth to symbolize the creation of something new; an era with freedom.
The People Yes