Carl Sandburg makes a profuse amount of points about his city in his poem‚ “Chicago”. He shows that although his city is known for being a rough city‚ there are still positive aspects of Chicago. He brings to mind the murders‚ and prostitution‚ and poverty of the city‚ but he also reminds his readers of the arts and the sports and how strong his city is. Carl Sandburg’s city is “alive and coarse and strong and cunning” (line 10). Carl Sandburg shows different aspects about his city and he uses literary
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New Poetry: “Chicago” “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg goes further into detail with what could be seen through a person’s eyes. The poem describes Chicago and everything that’s happening in the surroundings. A person’s eyes see more than some people think. “They tell me you are wicked and I believed them‚ for I have seen your fainted women under the gas lamps the farm boys‚” states imagery in the poem. Meaning the people of the town are bad‚ and how people are afraid. “Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping
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merging the two art forms‚ making jazz poetry. T.S. Eliot‚ E.E. Cummings‚ and Ezra Pound were just a handful of the many poets who were involved in this movement. (Shaw) Carl Sandburg was another poet who showed the world his love of jazz music‚ which he did through poetry. He wrote “Jazz Fantasia” to express that love. Carl Sandburg was born on January
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“Chicago” Analysis “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg is a poem written to describe the everyday lives of Chicagoans. Sandburg uses poetic devices such as similes‚ personification‚ and imagery to emphasize parts of the poem‚ which helps him show his love and pride for the city of Chicago. Imagery played a very important part in the poem because it gave the reader an image in there head of the city and the environment with the people who lived there. The main purpose of this poem is to defend the
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Heitman‚ Danny. “CARL SANDBURG A Workingman’s Poet.” Humanities‚ vol. 34‚ no. 2‚ 2013‚ pp. 28-35. Academic Search Premier. Heitman provides insight into Sandburg’s early life and how he eventually got interested in poetry. He chronologically outlines some major events in Sandburg’s early life and the different career plans he had. Moreover‚ Heitman writes about Sandburg’s poetry and his motives for writing certain poems. He also discusses Sandburg’s accomplishments such as awards for his poems and
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In the shed Dead or asleep‚ But with high Hind wheels Held so still We know It is only waiting‚ Ready to leap – Like a heavy Brown Grasshopper. by Valerie Worth Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbour and city on silent haunches and then moves on. by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) The Windmill Behold! a giant am I! Aloft here in my tower‚ With my granite jaws I devour The maize‚ and the wheat‚ and the rye‚ And grind them into flour. I
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and tone. Thanks to these elements‚ readers can compare and contrast similar poems. “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg and “My city” by James Weldon Johnson are two poems that are similar‚ but in their own way different. These poems are similar in the fact that they both talk about the proud the feeling for their cities; their theme and tone are similar‚ but they differ in structure. The themes by Sandburg and Johnson have a similarity‚ both are dual in nature‚ they describe the positive and negative sides
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consequences of war will always be present in society‚ there are few who think it can be completely erased. In “Grass‚” Carl Sandburg uses personification to proclaim that the traces of war can be eliminated by nature and time. "Grass" by Carl Sandburg is a poem filled with depth and complexity. The beginning line of the poem stating‚ "Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo" (Sandburg‚ Carl line 1) shows that there were several bodies left over from war. This historical allusion has a colorful meaning
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title‚ but not others? Why not farmer Smith‚ telecommuter Smith‚ or hog butcher Smith? Chicago‚ by Carl Sandburg‚ gives ordinary jobs‚ such as a hog butcher‚ the honor of titles. Sandburg opens the poem with well worded apostrophe by giving the city of Chicago these honored jobs. Chicago does not symbolize these jobs‚ or contain people who have these jobs; Chicago actually has those jobs. After Sandburg establishes Chicago’s different jobs‚ he goes on to talk about what other people say about Chicago
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Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Chicago by Carl Sandburg Sociological Analysis From the respective viewpoints from and within the Jungle by Upton Sinclair and the poem Chicago by Carl Sandburg‚ we can evaluate the differences between the externally affecting thoughts of the ignorant‚ the oppressed‚ the oppressors‚ and how the caused behaviors affect conditions in societies. The fictional facets of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 depiction of Chicago and the same of Carl Sandburg’s 1914 depiction catalyze the
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