Theme In Yellow

By Carl Sandburg

I spot the hills

With yellow balls in autumn.

I light the prairie cornfields

Orange and tawny gold clusters

And I am called pumpkins.

On the last of October

When dusk is fallen

Children join hands

And circle round me

Singing ghost songs

And love to the harvest moon;

I am a jack-o'-lantern

With terrible teeth

And the children know

I am fooling.

Composition date is unknown - the above date represents the first publication date.The lyrical form of this poem is unrhyming.12.jack-o'-lantern: pumpkin carved into a face with slits for eyes,nose and mouth and lighted from within for Halloween.