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Robert Sandburg's Use Of Figurative Language
Sandburg uses figurative language to fulfill meaning within his lines and explains that an enjoyment of poetry arises from running on of the meaning from one line to another. The first five short lines of this poem express an open-ended meaning, as there were many reasons that encouraged the poet to decide to establish his famous work. Sandburg composed predominately free verse poems, which are poems without structured rhyme or meter plane, and Chicago is one of them. Many lines in the work have an enjoyable flow that shapes and highlights with the disconnected many of one-syllable vocabularies. The figurative language that Sandburg chooses is important for the work’s regularity, however, his word choice seems to be tough and challenging action

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