Sixteen Months
Sixteen Months - fact Summary
About His Sixteen-month-old Daughter
This short lyric is a tender, observational portrait of Sandburg’s daughter Janet at sixteen months. The speaker records fleeting, dreamlike images on the child’s lips—spirals of blue smoke, a morning campfire, and wisps over miles of corn—that connect infancy to natural, luminous scenes. The poem compresses parental attentiveness into concise visual metaphors that suggest the child’s inner life and the speaker’s affectionate, watchful perspective.
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