1. Chicago By Carl Sandburg
My great great grandfather moved here from Whales and was a gentleman farmer, and my grand mother was a teacher, and my friends" parents were factory workers. I never realized that my grandfathers" crops were sent to Chicago to be distributed through out the country, and that 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. ... Personification, the representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person, is found throughout the poem. ... "Chicago" is a poem written about a...
- Word Count: 615
- Approx Pages: 2
- Grade Level: Undergraduate