singing wood winds

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Cadzao

#318753 Tue, 23 Jan 07 09:39 AM

'The loafer lagged along and asked,

"Do you make guitars here?

Do you make boxes the singing wood winds ask to sleep in?

Do you rig up strings the singing wood winds sift over and sing low?"

The answer: "We manufacture musical instruments here."'

(The Sins of Kalamazoo, Carl Sandburg)

Please help me to understand the two blue lines of the poem.

Cadzao

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Inchoateknowledge

#318758 Tue, 23 Jan 07 10:04 AM

Cadzao wrote:

'The loafer lagged along and asked,

"Do you make guitars here?

Do you make boxes the singing wood winds ask to sleep in?

Do you rig up strings the singing wood winds sift over and sing low?"

The answer: "We manufacture musical instruments here."'

(The Sins of Kalamazoo, Carl Sandburg)

Please help me to understand the two blue lines of the poem.

Cadzao

Do you make boxes the singing wood winds ask to sleep in? -- figurative speech

do you make nice boxes in which wood-wind musical instruments would "enjoy" themselves?

Inchoateknowledge

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nona the brit

#318764 Tue, 23 Jan 07 10:32 AM

Is the original wood winds or woodwinds.

Woodwind is a category of musical instrument, for example clarinet and oboe.

nona the brit

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The name says it all.

Philip

#318899 Tue, 23 Jan 07 04:19 PM

'The loafer lagged along and asked,

Where is the loafer? From what I know of Sandburg, this could all be a setting in the woods, with many figurative images. (I'll look for the poem.)

Philip

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