Poem about moving?

December 14, 2022 8:57 AM

This thread on the blue has me trying to remember a poem about how moving isn't always what you hope it will be. I want to say it's by Carl Sandburg, but I may be wrong. In the poem, a young woman (I think) hates her rural life. She dreams that if she just moves to town, everything will be better. She does and it isn't. Then she decides she needs to move to the city. Surely that will improve everything. She does and it does not. She sets her sights on a really huge city, thinking that will fix everything. She moves there and it does not. I think at that point, she kills herself. Do you recall this poem?
posted by DirtyOldTown to Media & Arts (2 answers total)

Not your quest but DH Lawrence’s short story The Man Who Loved Islands has a similar trajectory I think.
posted by rongorongo at 9:24 AM on December 14, 2022

This might not be it, but The City by Constantine P Cavafy?
posted by lokta at 1:41 PM on December 14, 2022