... Chicago was built on factories and industry, the tall buildings and the Chicago Stock Exchange were built on the backs of those factory workers, and distributors. The poem "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg introduced me to someone I had known about for years, but had never really known. The poet uses several techniques of figurative speech to bring vibrancy and familiarity to the ... reader to like the person or city, something a list of adjectives could never do. Simile, expressing a resemblance between things of different kinds using 'like' or 'as' is also used by Carl Sandburg in this poem,...

• Word Count: 615
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate