Cartoon
I AM making a Cartoon of a Woman. She is the People. She is the Great Dirty Mother.
And Many Children hang on her Apron, crawl at her Feet, snuggle at her Breasts.
Carl Sandburg
I AM making a Cartoon of a Woman. She is the People. She is the Great Dirty Mother.
And Many Children hang on her Apron, crawl at her Feet, snuggle at her Breasts.
In “Cartoon,” Sandburg presents the People as one enormous, weathered woman. The speaker is not describing a real person; he is drawing a symbol, and he calls her the “Great Dirty Mother.” That word “dirty” is not an insult here.
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