Question

what does the poet mean by of your childrens that died to call their own

Answer 1

This poem begins with a child asking a simple question: "What is the grass?" The speaker muses that it is hard for him to answer the child, since he hardly knows any better than the child does. He goes on to ponder possible responses to the query. First, he calls the grass "the flag of my disposition," woven from his own hopes. Then he calls it the "handkerchief the Lord," intended to remind us of His power. Next he muses that the grass is also child (of the vegetation). He then calls it a "uniform hieroglyphic," pointing out that it grows around all people regardless of race or identity. Then, he writes that the grass seems like the "beautiful uncut hair of graves."