Monotone
Monotone - context Summary
Published in 1916
Published in Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems (1916), this short lyric pairs simple natural images—the steady rain and a blazing sunset—with the speaker’s beloved. The poem moves from observation to intimacy, suggesting that the person’s face contains both the rain’s calm and the sunset’s fire. Its spare language and direct comparisons emphasize beauty as a fusion of contrasting, ordinary elements.
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