Sometimes readers of poems equate the speaker with the author. in carl sandburg's poem "grass" why do readers know that the speaker cannot be the author?
the speaker is given a specific name.
there seems to be no speaker in the poem.
the speaker is clearly dead.
the speaker is the grass.

In Carl Sandburg's poem "Grass" the readers know that the speaker cannot be the author because:

The speaker is the grass.

One of the lines in the poem says "I am the grass; I cover all" and the last two lines say "I am the grass. Let me work." This poem talks about the wars, the lives that were lost, and how all these men were buried and covered by grass. The grass' work is to hide all the bodies. The poem mentions the battles of Austerlitz, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Ypres, and Verdun.

the characters in string all have major secrets that they strive to avoid revealing throughout the play.