Galoots
Galoots - meaning Summary
Brutal Appetite and Survival
The poem portrays "galoots" as crude, animalistic figures driven by hunger and selfishness. Sandburg catalogues their grabbing, snousling, and competitive scavenging, contrasting those who howl at the moon with the mass of fat and lean bodies preoccupied with consumption. The voice is blunt and colloquial, treating human appetite as instinctual behavior and a social condition, suggesting a communal landscape shaped by acquisitiveness and survival rather than nobility or restraint.
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