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    A Study Guide for Carl Sandburg's "Moon Rondeau"
    A Study Guide for Carl Sandburg's "Moon Rondeau"
    A Study Guide for Carl Sandburg's "Moon Rondeau"
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    A Study Guide for Carl Sandburg's "Moon Rondeau"

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    A Study Guide for Carl Sandburg's "Moon Rondeau," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535828833
    A Study Guide for Carl Sandburg's "Moon Rondeau"

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      Moon Rondeau

      Carl Sandburg

      1963

      Introduction

      Moon Rondeau was published in 1963 by Carl Sandburg in a collection of poetry titled Honey and Salt. This was one of his later works; he had already been named the People's Poet, and he focused on his favorite themes in the collection. Moon Rondeau is a lyrical love story about nature and people, a longing for the ethereal, and an illustration of the moon in ordinary yet lovely language.

      Sandburg wrote nearly twenty poems with the word moon in the title and many more about evening skies, stars, fogs, and other celestial and atmospheric themes. The moon usually represents the inspiration of light to darkness, hope, and longing, though in Red Moon, for example, it suggests violence. In Moon Rondeau, the moon represents love and constancy.

      A rondeau is a strict poetic form that uses fifteen lines of rhyming refrains in which the first line or the first words of the first line are repeated. In his usual habit of breaking rhyming rules and giving his poetry a free verse structure, Sandburg does not use this form for Moon Rondeau. Perhaps he chooses to use the word rondeau in his title to reinforce the need to repeat the act of professing one's love for another or to compare love to the constancy of the moon that repeats its appearance every night. The roundness of the moon can represent eternal love, a circle unbroken, with no beginning and no

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