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 * ==Carl Sandburg ==


  ||> ==    == <span style="color: rgb(7, 3, 3); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(253, 251, 251); background-color: rgb(3, 2, 2);"><span style="color: rgb(180, 19, 19);"><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 7, 7);"><span style="color: rgb(6, 5, 5);"><span style="color: rgb(78, 70, 70);"><span style="color: rgb(248, 247, 247); background-color: rgb(3, 3, 3);"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: right;"> <span style="color: rgb(3, 0, 5);"><span style="color: rgb(37, 14, 14);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(6, 5, 5); background-color: rgb(255, 254, 250);"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Born in Galesburg Illinois, Carl August Sandburg, was a moving poet who was inspired by the world around him. After quitting school after eight grade in 1891,    <span style="color: rgb(37, 14, 14);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 250);"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(3, 0, 5);">he turned to a variety of jobs such as delivering milk, harvesting wheat and shining shoes. Some years later in 1897, Sandburg ultimately began to travel around as a hobo. Through his years of hard work and traveling, Carl Sandburg's views on politics as well as his inspirations for his art work were <span style="color: rgb(0, 6, 20);">greatly influenced. <span style="color: rgb(0, 6, 20);">He grew to favor the hard workers and began to volunteer for the Wisconsin Social Democratic party where he met his future wife Lilian Steichen. <span style="color: rgb(0, 6, 20);">Sandburg was a relatively unknown poet until 1914 when a group of his poems was published in the //<span style="color: rgb(10, 0, 0);">Poetry //<span style="color: rgb(0, 6, 20);"><span style="color: rgb(10, 0, 0);"> magazine. Two short years later, Chicago poems was published which pushed him into world-wide acclaim. <span style="color: rgb(3, 0, 5);">Two of his published volumes of books won the Pulitzer Prize-<span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 0);"> //<span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 0);">Abraham Lincoln: The War Years //<span style="color: rgb(3, 0, 5);"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 0);"> and<span style="color: rgb(15, 0, 0);">  //<span style="color: rgb(15, 0, 0);">Complete Poems //<span style="color: rgb(3, 0, 5);">. <span style="color: rgb(4, 3, 7);"><span style="color: rgb(9, 6, 6);">Carl Sandburg died in his North Carolin home on July 22, 1967. His ashes were returned to his birthplace of Galesburg and placed beneath a red granite boulder known as the Remembrance Rock. Ten years later, the ashes of his wife Lilian were placed with his.

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> ||> <span style="color: rgb(232, 48, 48);"> || <span style="font-size: 300%; color: rgb(247, 196, 125); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Explication: <span style="font-size: 300%; color: rgb(247, 196, 125); font-family: Georgia,serif;">__<span style="color: rgb(177, 65, 246);">Chicago __ “Chicago” is a poem by the famous author Carl Sandburg. This is a poem about the busy city of Chicago and the troubles of working America and that come with a city. Sandburg looks out at this city and writes down what it tells him. This is what made him know to the world of poet ry. I got my copy of this poem from the Carl Sandburg website. This is an ode to the harsh reality of working class America. The first stanza is talking about the some of the main jobs of living in a big city. The gruesome second stanza is about the horror of living in the city of Chicago. It is describing the temptations, ghettos, homeless, rudeness, and longing for a better city and life. The third and final stanza is about the corporate gurus working these people to death and not caring just as long as he gets his money. Also how the workers are proud to be doing these small jobs that they are doing and these big business owners laughing at them. Sandburg made his point powerfully and created a very stern mood in describing the blue collar workers of a major city. The strongest elements in the story are in the third stanza, when he describes the aristocratic business owners and how brutal their clutch is on the working class. The metaphor about the laughing with white teeth lets you know exactly who he is talking about. This is a very gruesome and harsh look at life in a Chicago which sometimes makes it unappealing to the reader. There were no positive aspects about city life portrayed in this poem. Many parts of this poem are true but they do not apply to my life. The area that we live in is not a large blue collar working city. We must have compassion for people who are in this situation. But still we must have a positive attitude on life and what it brings to the table.
 * * <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Chicago]
 * <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Arithmetic]
 * <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|A Coin]
 * <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Gypsy]
 * <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Back Yard]

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__Carl Sandburg Poems__. Sept 1998<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Andyy Barr Productions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. 8 December 2008 <http://www.carl-sandburg.com/chicago.htm>.

__PoemHunter.Com.__ 9 December 2008. 7 December 2008. [|<http://www.poemhunter.com/carl-sandburg>]

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