Tone In The Poem Knucks By Carl Sandburg

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In the poem “Knucks” by Carl Sandburg, the author creates a worshipful and reflective tone. In the text, the speaker feels this way because the speaker likes looking at the town and he tends to pay attention to small details of the town. As the speaker looked through the town, he spotted a store that sold “knucks”. He was trying out one when a comment made him reflect about the town that he was in, realizing that he was in Abraham Lincoln’s hometown. When he was strolling and look around, the speaker paid attention to things of the town like “Wrapped in battle flags, / Wrapped in the smoke of memories, / This is the place they brought him, / This is Abraham Lincoln's home town”. This created a worshipful tone because reading the text wants