Prayers After World War
Prayers After World War - meaning Summary
After War, Seek Unity
Sandburg's short prayer addresses a feminine, wandering figure who embodies nations and victims of World War I. The speaker pleads for a single new dream and guiding star to replace wartime destruction—ashes, blood, scars—and asks natural forces and industry to help weave a peaceful future. Repetition of appeals underlines communal forgetting and the desire to transform chaos into unity and hope for tomorrow.
Read Complete AnalysesWANDERING oversea dreamer, Hunting and hoarse, Oh daughter and mother, Oh daughter of ashes and mother of blood, Child of the hair let down, and tears, Child of the cross in the south And the star in the north, Keeper of Egypt and Russia and France, Keeper of England and Poland and Spain, Make us a song for to-morrow. Make us one new dream, us who forget, Out of the storm let us have one star. Struggle, Oh anvils, and help her. Weave with your wool. Oh winds and skies. Let your iron and copper help, Oh dirt of the old dark earth. Wandering oversea singer, Singing of ashes and blood, Child of the scars of fire, Make us one new dream, us who forget. Out of the storm let us have one star.
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