What Is The Mood Of The Poem Chicago

Using descriptive diction such as “eerie” and “swamp” readers can imagine an unpleasant city rustling with filth and crime. Larson exposes that Chicago had “auras of mosquitoes” in its midst. Readers automatically see Chicago as a filthy and troublesome town when they associate it with mosquitoes. This view of Chicago created by Larson further achieves his purpose to show the downside of Chicago during the time the World Fair was being constructed and attended. When the World Fair was finished, Larson described the nights, “the lamps that laced every building and walkway produced the most elaborate demonstration of electric illumination ever attempted” (254). Larson says the lamps “laced” the walkways in the white city which allows readers to picture the city in a whimsical way. The feeling of the word “laced” sits with readers in a positive way. Thus, Larson can achieve the purpose of forcing readers to see the white city in a luxurious fashion. Also, Larson mentions that the lighting was “elaborate.” Readers see the white city as a sophisticated and lavish place rather than how they see the black city. Larson again is able to persuade readers into believing the magic of the white city. Larson calls upon imagery to construct the two sides of Chicago.

Yet another literary device used by Walker is symbolism. There are three major symbols in this story, and each are contextual. The first major symbol is Chicago. “In Chicago, a word she hears when thinking of smoke…she sees hovering over the heads of the clean neighbors in her front yard black specks falling, clinging, from the sky. But in Chicago.” (1124, 2), and “Respect, a chance to build…a chance to be on top. What a relief, she thinks.” (1124, 2) are opposing views of Chicago. For Roselily, Chicago represents a new start to a new life; an opportunity. It also represents a change, from the beautiful country of Mississippi to the urbanized city of Chicago, where it rains black specks. Another symbol is her new spouses’ religion. Although it isn’t said what his religion is, the reader can assume it’s

Not only does this poem talk about the smells of the city and the tall skyscrapers and her crowds it also talks about its slums “Her shining towers, her avenues, her slums” (line 12). when you think of a city such as manhattan you normally think of its skyscrapers the biggest crowds of tourist that have no clue of where they are going. but you normally tend to overlook the slums and the bad parts of a large city. James Weldon Johnson expresses his love for his city even with all of its flaws by saying “ O God! the stark, unutterable pity, to be dead, and never again behold my city” (lines 13-14). He does not want to see the day that he can no longer see all the wonderful aspects of a large

The author uses raw descriptive words such as “iron,” “tarry,” and “tin,” to display this city as superficial. The city is just made out of these substances that the people have made these buildings out of. These substances all conduct heat and present this madness and anger of the man in the poem. These materials present a manmade structure that displays the city as shallow.

When acknowledging the turnout of Chicago’s fair, Larson uses figurative language to demonstrate the contesting forces of good and evil and to examine the extent to which Chicago stretched the fair’s potential. Larson writes, “Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world” (30). Larson uses personification when he says that “Chicago has disappointed her enemies…” and is giving Chicago a human behavior. This strategy emits a positive connotation to the reader . The use of figurative language makes the reader look at Chicago as having achieved a great honor by hosting the fair. It also shows that Chicago can create something so miraculous in a time of such hardship and need for ingenuity and amidst the evil waiting within the shadows of the White City. When describing the tension in the top floor of the Rookery while the architects were revealing their drawings for the fair, Larson writes “As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library’s gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats” (115) and he uses figurative language to help the reader grasp the importance and anticipation of this moment. By comparing the library’s gas jets to “mildly perturbed cats,” the reader gains a sense of agitation, anticipation, and the anxiety that the architects were feeling in that moment. Larson creates a negative and rather comforting connotation by using this simile to describe the room’s tension. The way that Larson describes this moment leads the reader to imagine it to be

In the novel The Devil in the White City, Author Erik Larson uses imagery, irony, and juxtaposition to parallel the good and evil sides of the city of Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair. Larson takes a more upbeat, joyous tone while following the story of Burnham and the architects designing the World Fair, but the tone turns much darker when perspectives change and we follow the plot of H.H. Holmes, America’s first known serial killer. Using rhetorical devices like imagery, diction, and syntax, Larson is able to paint a picture of Chicago from both the good and evil side, setting a more serious and ominous tone for the novel.

In “it was a blighted, hellish place full of noise and dust and smoke and inhuman towers that blocked the sun and she hated it—hated especially this gloomy building and the ceaseless clamor of construction” (Larson 123), the black city is described through selective connotation and word choice. Larson creating an unpleasant mood by using such negative and degrading words such as “blighted,” “hellish,” and “inhuman” to describe Chicago, readers can envision a hateful and dull place. By placing “and” in front of the negative words: blighted, hellish, and inhuman and repeating “and” multiple times, the list of unappealing attributes of the city is elongated. Essentially, Chicago is envisioned in a worse way than if the negative adjectives were just listed one after another without the effect that “and” carries, emphasizing the hatred the character held towards

Chicago is an American crime musical drama released in 2002 directed by Rob Marshall and starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere. The film takes place in 1920s Chicago and tells the story of Roxie Hart, who dreams of being a performer, but has her dreams crushed after she murdered Fred Casely after he lied to her about having show business connections. The main theme of Chicago is that crime pays, which is not revealed to the audience until after the denouement of Chicago, when Roxie partners up with Velma Kelly, a performer is also imprisoned after a double homicide.

With many ways of transportation rolling the people of Chicago around, wheels “[strike] the pavement like rolling hammers-produc[ing] a constant thunder” (Larson 28) . By comparing the strikes the pavement takes to thunder, it becomes apparent the Black City is an overwhelming noisy place to be in. The audience is taken back because of the constant noise they would hear while walking down the streets or just being there. The immense amount of chaos going on contributes to Larson’s purpose of the negative connotation of the Black City. While the Black City takes on a chaotic role, the White City has an “inexhaustible dream of beauty” (Larson 252).

He thought poetry was an art of association, it inspires readers' imagination with symbolism rather than direct imitation of life, and hold the reader's feelings and arouse them to act with passion. His style throughout the 19th century formed the mainstream of American poetry”(1).

In Devil in the White City, Erik Larson details the favorable and heinous aspects of Chicago during the progressive era. The characters in the novel contradicted each other because of the nickname given for the World Fair “White City” and the nickname for Chicago, “Black City”. Erik Larson effectively conveys in Devil in the White City through diction, characterization and juxtaposition that although the there are two contrasting plots, they both left a mark on society and impacted individual’s lives.

Baseball in Chicago was very big it grew a lot in Chicago back then in the 1800’s.

In "Chicago," published in 1916, has accepted the world around him and acknowledges that although he is not a part of what he has witnessed, he is complacent with the alienating properties Chicago is able to provide and finds comfort in being lost within the large city. The narrator begins by describing Chicago as "Hog Butcher for the World,/Tool maker, Stacker of Wheat,/ Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;/Stormy, husky, brawling,/City of the Big Shoulders" to explain how industrialization has come to define the city ("Chicago" 1-5). The narrator then proceeds to describe his observations of individuals who live on the fringe of society, "painted women under the gas lamps luring

As we read chapter two, we saw a comparison between the book and the poem we had read earlier. The poem first talked about how Chicago does not have a good justice system. It also described the women that lived there as prostitutes and how their children were terrified of the city. Then, the poem revealed how the city of Chicago was dark and smoke filled. The city represented darkness, but the people of the town were still proud of it. Even though it was a dark town, it still thrived in jobs and even in the railroad system. The pride of Chicago was something many experienced.

and that he believes them. The poem also translates into how living in the city is toilsome and that the city is unrelenting. On the other hand it shows how the city can be prosperous and happy with the city’s disadvantages. in the second half of the poem it’s telling how nomatter what is wrong with the city, the people are still proud of who they are.