In “Chicago” Carl Sandburg embraces everything the city has to offer, from hog butchers to railroads, construction to prostitutes. The poem made famous, with the description of Chicago as "City of the Big Shoulders," celebrates its role at the time as the industrial capital of the United States. Personification is used throughout the description of the city. It's a vibrant and dynamic city, and the speaker finds beauty in it, despite its dark corners. The poem shows all parts of the city and shows
Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” is one of the best known works of 20th century American literature. Included in many anthologies, the poem made the well-known description of Chicago as “City of Big Shoulders” honoring its role as of industrial capital of the United States at the time. Sandburg’s family moved around during his entire childhood and he dropped out of school at age 13. He worked almost every job there is to offer. He finally went back to college and captured the attention of Professor Phillip
provide any real opportunities, and if they can, they certainly are no longer capable of enabling it for others. Being open minded and a forward thinker can play a big role in whether there is success in pursuing the American Dream or not. Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago”
Chicago has always been a great city, Right? Wrong, Chicago has had to jump through many hoops to get to where it is today. The city went through many hard times and had many high and lows, literally. Chicago has had many important events one of them and the most important of them all would have to be the start of Chicago. Another would have to be the infamous fire of 1871, which burned half of the city to the ground ("Timeline Chicago."). Chicago has had many great poets that have been molded there
one or a bad one, it still offends someone, somewhere. In Carl Sandburg's “Chicago”, he states both the ups and the downs of Chicago, and how no matter how bad the city can get, it is still his home. The fact is, home is different to different people. Someone will dislike someone else’s version of home, and someone will like it. An opinion is just that: an opinion. In Sandburg's poem, he writes about many of the qualities the city of Chicago holds, both good and bad. He describes the city as “stormy
influenced us to become the people we are today thanks, in large part, to where we are originally from. Here in America, our identities and perception on the pride and views of our country are changing every day. In the poems “Chicago” and “The Gift Outright” Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost describe American identity by choosing various descriptive
In the poems “Chicago” and “The Gift Outright” Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost describe American identity by choosing various descriptive
Langston looked up to poets such as Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. Langston’s teachers praised him because of his dedication to school and because of the fascinating essays and poems he wrote. Langston Hughes admired Walt Whitman’s work and was inspired by him to write poetry. Walt Whitman
John Avery Lomax was born in 1867 in Mississippi. In 1869 he moved to Bosque County in Texas where he spent his younger days working the the fields of his family farm. John Lomax gained interest in songs and poems at an early age, he’d often hear others singing cowboy or campfire songs and learn them himself. The songs John Lomax learnt were documented in the form of songbooks and recordings, and unbeknown to him, they would go on to become one of the most renowned music collections in music history