Chicago Poems (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- First Published: 1916
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Midwest, Class consciousness, Poetry or poets, Chicago, Poverty or poor people, Working class, Democracy, Fog
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Work
Chicago Poems, Carl Sandburg’s first published book of poetry, is a collection of nearly 150 poems. In it, Sandburg revitalized the subject matter and the form of poetry. His poetry is of the people and cities of the Midwest. The people of his cities, the laboring masses who migrated there in search of a better life, speak in the often slangy, colloquial words of the laboring classes. His nature images are taken from the wide rolling prairies.
Sandburg first attacks then praises the people about whom he writes. In “Chicago,” the opening poem,...
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