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A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares Carl Sandberg's Chicago and William Carlos Williams' poem The Crowd at the Ball Game. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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American poets wrote in reference to what they saw in American culture. Sandburg took the wide view, writing of cities and workers and how the growth of the nation. Williams
took the narrower view, focusing on the details that say a great deal about daily life and the continuity of the human experience. Carl Sandburg was the only
American poet ever asked to address Congress (Epstein 47). He became known as the "peoples poet" and with good reason, for arguably, there has never been an American poet
before or since that was so completely an enthusiastic supporter for the American working class. As his poem Chicago so perfectly exemplifies, Sandburg saw drama and poetry in the hard
work and hard muscles of the people who carved a nation out of the wilderness of North America. Chicago begins with short terse lines that sound rather like a classified
ad for an entire city. Sandburg writes, "Hog Butcher for the World/ Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,/ Player with Railroad and the Nations Freight Handler" (lines 1-3). This is Sandburgs
city, the "City of the Big Shoulders" (line 5). These images sound like a geography lesson. One can almost hear the teacher polling the class, "The major manufacturing industries in
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big shoulders who provided the labor that kept the
US economy going in the early years of the twentieth century. From this beginning, Sandburg goes into longer lines that have rhythm and inflection of regular speech. The narrative voice
speaks to the personified city. "They tell me you are wicked and I believe them..." (line 6). There is no denying the "sins" of a city like Chicago. Sandburg freely
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