Literary Devices In Chicago By Carl Sandburg

Although the city is portrayed to be materialistic, it is the people who have produced and shaped New York City. The people and the city are dependent on each other. If it was not for the people there would be no city. As well as if it was not for the physical being of the city, there would be no people. The speaker mentions before the man realizes he will not commit suicide, “Then the huge machinery of the earth began to work for his life,” (20). After the metal materials are mentioned, the author uses personification to describe the “machinery,” the city, to save his life. The speaker finds a deeper meaning to the city. Although the man thought this “huge machinery” was working against him the whole time, it was the people of the city who are there to save his life. Every city has is a police system and a fire station. If it was not for them the man would have gave up and died. The city saved his life.

Grass serves as the pan-historical speaker and sees humans die constantly, but show little to no emotion. The poem made allusions up to World War I because that was the timeframe Sandburg lived. At the time, World War I was believed to be the war that ends all wars. Ironically, this did not happen because World War II immediately followed. This shows as time passes, the grass will cover it all, leaving nothing behind for people to remember. Nature covers the scars of the past with beautiful landscapes, but there will always be the forgotten bodies beneath. Humans will eventually be forgotten, but nature will always

The poem uses a vast amount of alliteration throughout it. The author is showing a pattern through their writing. He uses alliteration to give life to his words for a better understanding of what is happening.

The significance and implications of part 2 chapter 7 quote is to show the significance of how things were changing in Chicago. In the quote it says how not a lot of audience members enjoyed the poem, even though Monroe acknowledged this she felt as though the poem was brilliant and got five thousand copies made. Even though poetry was a big factor of entertainment at this point of time new and better inventions were more interesting to the people in Chicago and they were starting to shift to a more modern way of entertainment.

In the poem “Chicago” I liked the line that goes as follows, “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning” This line makes the poem change perspectives. As the reader I felt as if he was going to bash the bad things that happen in such a large city. The writer is talking about violence, and poverty in the beginning. Then with this line he shows that he knows about all of this. He is not blind in thinking his city is without faults. To me the speaker sees that there are bad things about the city; he knows of the poverty and violence. He goes on to say that he is proud of his city, he has people sneer at him for loving his city but he stands his ground. He loves his city for all

In this collection, he speaks out for workers and also accuses the wealthy for the situations of the laborers (Van Wienen 91). Sandburg even identifies with common laborers in his attempt to act as a voice for them (Van Wienen 92). The poems in this work address several political issues such as child labor, inhumane working conditions, and poverty (Van Wienen 98). Moreover, he attempted to elevate average laborers in his poetry and depict them as optimistic and energetic (Beyers 109). For instance, in Sandburg’s poem “Jack,” the main character experiences the death of his wife and the moving out of his children (Beyers 109). However, he spends every day in the sun and talks cheerfully with his friends (Beyers

“Wire legs and feet” means that the Sandpipers have very skinny legs and feet. It also means that skinny, weak people can sometimes stand up to everything. This gives the feeling that the sandpipers’ legs can stand up to anything. “Salt water kills” means that the salt in the water kills the plants that cannot fight the saltiness. This phrase also means that an overpower item can kill and wipe out everything except those who can fly away and come back to fight back. This gives the feeling that the saltwater is an overpowering force that control everything near it. “Pity anything but the…” means that the world is pitying everything on it but the sandpipers. Also, this means that the your mark on the world is a mark that most people don’t leave even if it fades into history. This give the feeling of sorrow for everything but the sandpipers. I determined that Carl Sandburg’s message is that while everyone might give up, keep trying and you’ll leave your

"City of the Big Shoulders" in Chicago, introduces a new outlook to some parts of the poem. This poem line could interpret the people of Chicago as people with literally big shoulders due to the kind of labor they do. It could also suggest that the people or the city, as it was depicted in the poem, possess a warm heart, great humor and a shoulder for others to lean on. In lines 6 to 9 where Chicago was being verbally attacked, none of the claims were denied but in retaliation, the city was depicted as the strongest, the most cunning and hardest working of all other states. The humor comes later on when the city was laughing in a manner that disregards the ignorance of the person in lines 6 to 9.

In the early 20th century Carl Sandburg wrote a poem called “Chicago”. In this poem he opens with brutal imagery about the city Chicago by calling in a “hog” and the “butcher of the world”. Sandburg later defends the city from the hateful terms that have been expressed towards Chicago. Carl Sandburg expresses a very clear tone throughout the poem “Chicago”, the tone can be easily analyzed by evaluating how Sandberg describes the city towards the middle of the poem. Reading through the poem you can easily understand that the speaker is expressing a very proud tone.

He grew up around the common working man and even became one himself at a very young age. He got to hear stories of men who fought first hand in the war, and “recalls playing baseball in cow pastures, walking along dusty roads to the county fair, carrying water for the elephants at the circus, and swimming in the forbidden brickyard pond” (Angyal). Sandburg’s simplistic lifestyle greatly affected his style of writing. His poems are easy to read for the average person and don’t follow a strict structure or style. Instead Sandburg’s poems are more loose and free, yet strong and descriptive. No one has to be a mastermind to understand what Sandburg is telling through his

Carl Sandburg; a 20th century American Poet, once defined poetry as “…the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during that moment.” Sandburg attempts to suggest that an experience can be expressed by a poet via the way language is used. Many writers are influenced heavily by the political, social, and environmental situations that they’ve experienced, which may need to be known to the reader to fully understand what the writer is trying to communicate through their works.

The city of Chicago is referred to as if it were a living, breathing, vibrant person. The entire poem personifies Chicago into a living entity. He describes Chicago as a human with “Big Shoulders”, “head singing”, “white teeth”, and “the heart of the people”. He is so convincing that as you read you feel like he is talking about a living "pulsing" person. In the second verse, Sandburg speaks to Chicago in a way you might discuss someones past. “They tell me you are wicked” also “They tell me you are crooked”.(SANDBUR 727) In each example sandburg agrees with Chicago’s less than perfect reputation. However the poet sees through all the roughness and sees the liveliness and excitement that existed in the city. Furthering his purpose Sandburg defends the city referring to its “lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning”(14-15). In the final stanza, Sandburg moves from personification to a simile "Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness" (18). Then, as if in a drumming cadence to make a sort of thumping emotional appeal of how he sees Chicago, Sandburg uses an astonishingly effective series of words that precisely indicates what he sees in

For instance, “sheath of sleep in the black of bed” (Ln1) and “I stoop and slip back to the sheath, for the sleep I still need” (Lns 60-61). This explains that the poet has fallen fast asleep in bed in line 1 and in lines 60-61 it explains how he goes back to bed after the whole raccoon incident. Alliteration is shown to highlight “black” and “bed” in line 1 and “slip” and “still” in lines 60-61. The assonance is shown in the repetition of the “e” in “sheath” and “sleep”. Snyder shows the state of mind by creating examples of the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words and is also repeating vowel sounds in the words placed near each other. Usually in the same or adjacent

The two authors may write the same genre of articles, but they are both fairly different, in the excerpt “a Lincoln preface” the author Carl Sandburg uses a lot of dialect which makes you feel like you're in Lincoln's life as well, Sandburg quotes things that happened, or what were said. While on the other hand, in the excerpt “ Arthur Ashe Remembrance” the author John McPhee more tells the story of the Arthur's life, using things that happened while he was growing up, like his mother passing away from illness.

Analysis Essay for “My City” “My City” was written by James Weldon Johnson in 1923. This poem represents the different aspects Manhattan has in its city. In the poem “My City”, James Weldon Johnson used concrete sensory details, repetition, personification, and a rhetorical question to show what he will miss in the city he lives in when he dies. “My City” is a poem that has fourteen lines and two stanzas, also known as a Petrarchan sonnet. In these two stanzas the author uses literary techniques to portray the meaning of the poem.