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What the Rattlesnake Said
Source: Poetry (July 1913).
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Vachel Lindsay became famous in his day as a traveling bard whose dramatic delivery in public readings helped keep appreciation for poetry as a spoken art alive in the American Midwest. With their strong rhythms rooted in the American vernacular, revival meetings, the soap box, and the works of Edgar Allan Poe and William Blake, poems such as "The Santa Fe Trail," "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," and "The Congo" have become . . .
Poems by Vachel Lindsay
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Nature, Stars, Planets, Heavens, Animals
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Persona
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