Carl Sandburg
In his work Carl Sandburg gave voice to least powerful people. He was a central figure in the “Chicago Renaissance” and he played a significant role in the development in poetry that took place during the first two decades of the 20th century. His emphasis on the tradition of American experience associate him with Hart Crane and Robinson Jeffers. had a sense of where to go and how, how to go north north-by-west north, till they came to one wooden pole, The People, Yes (1936) is probably Sandburg’s most popular single book. From his very volumes Sandburg was interested in the speech of Midwesterners, spoken by the working class of the industrial cities. In The People, Yes, his interest in folk speech and folk expression became a clear feature of his poetry. It also gave evidence of the author’s epigrammatic skill and felicitous phasing. Because Sandburg’s writings celebrated the American spirit, he was often called the successor to Walt Whitman. A lot of Sandburg’s poems are in a Midwest setting and use some typical Midwest slang terminology. Even when the poem is not set in t
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Approximate Word count = 1082
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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