文档介绍：Chicago Carl Sandburg
【cloud gate / bean】
【Sears Tower】
First published in “Poetry” in 1914 and later collected in Chicago Poems, this poem fully shows the style of those poets in industrial America.
Sandburg looks around Chicago with great admiration and depicts the city’s glory and degeneration.
Introduction
1 Hog Butcher for the World,
2 Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
3 Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
4 Stormy, husky, brawling,
5 City of the Big Shoulders:
Question:
What function does the metaphor and personification serve?
The poet highlights the vigor and power of Chicago.
6 They tell me you are wicked and I believe them,
for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
7 And they tell me you are crooked and I answer:
Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
8 And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
9 And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
10 Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
A talk between the poet and the personified Chicago.
Long lines; parallel structure; personification; strong diction
The poet pleads for the wea