FOG- Date: 1916SOUP- 1920s

Carl Sandburg

BiographyFIRST NAME: Carl LAST NAME: SandburgOCCUPATION: Journalist, Author, PoetBIRTH DATE: January 06, 1878DEATH DATE: July 22, 1967 PLACE OF DEATH: Flat Rock, North Carolina PLACE OF BIRTH: Galesburg, Illinois

Biography-2Carl Sandburg was born on January 6,

1878, in Galesburg, Illinois. He fought in the Spanish-American War. In 1913, he moved to Chicago to work as a journalist. In 1914, his poetry was published in Poetry magazine. His well-recieved free verse poetry focused on American workers. He also collected folksongs into books and wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography about Abraham Lincoln.

Historic/Social BackgroundThe early 1900s in America was a point in time when the

Industrial Revolution was changing the way many Americans made a living. The topics in this section cover daily life in this time period and how new inventions changed the working world.

After the depression of the 1890s, immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in that decade to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe continued coming as they had for three centuries, but in decreasing numbers. After the 1880s, immigrants increasingly came from Eastern and Southern European countries, as well as Canada and Latin America. By 1910, Eastern and Southern Europeans made up 70 percent of the immigrants entering the country. After 1914, immigration dropped off because of the war, and later because of immigration restrictions imposed in the 1920s.

Poems by Carl SandburgFog

The fog comeson little cat feet.

It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunches

and then moves on. Carl Sandburg

SoupI saw a famous man eating soup.

I say he was lifting a fat brothInto his mouth with a spoon.

His name was in the newspapers that daySpelled out in tall black headlines

And thousands of people were talking about him.

When I saw him,He sat bending his head over a plate

Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon. Carl Sandburg

Poem Analysis - FogCarl Sandburg's poem, "Fog," is among the few

exceptions that mark Sandburg's break from free verse poetry. Fog", a mere six lines long, is written in verse-form and is an innocent expression of finding beauty in an ordinary world.

The movement between line breaks also contributes to the poem's transition between moods, beginning with an anticipation that leads us to a sort of anxious uncertainty, and then ends with relief as the fog "moves on."

Poem Analysis - SoupInstead, the impact of "Soup" is in all the

little touches, the splashes of detail, in phrases such as 'tall black headlines' and 'bending his head over a plate'.

Sandburg's passionate unstructured verse may have invigorated American poetry when it was first published in the early years of this century, in recent years it has fallen out of favour with critics due to its seeming lack of discipline

Explanation - FogVarious emotions which are expressed by

the use of variety of techniques including metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia. The emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the use of techniques such as repetition, meter and rhyme are commonly used. He makes heavy use of imagery and word association to quickly convey emotions.

Fog can be mysterious, unpredictable, and a little scary. It can come out of nowhere and drop right on your head without much of a warning. And then, like a kitty, it moves on leaving us kind of in awe as we wonder where it's going next.

Explanation - SoupA nice little vignette that makes a simple

point, but makes it well: even the rich and famous are like you and I

The famous man, who had his name in the headlines puts his head to the plate and eats the soup with a spoon like most people."The rich are different from you and me." -- F.

Scott Fitzgerald. "Yes, they have more money." -- Ernest Hemingway.

ComparisonPoem and Soup are both very different

poems containing two different subjects. However they both have his style of free

verse, and the un- rhymed scheme.Both poems describe the world around us

where one is about a famous person, and the other about the fog.

SignificanceThese poems help us learn that poems do

not have to have a structure that limits our message.

His poems aren’t limited to one subject and he can freely express his thoughts into his poems

We chose these poems because of their differences.

Also because they were short.

Jackie Ling’s PoemI am Imperfect

Don’t hateBecause I make

MistakesYet I ponderIsn’t it what

makes me uniqueinstead of

weak

Raymond’s PoemI Run the race

At a steady paceWith eyes on the prize

I will rise

Richard’s PoemMountain Cabin

I would climb the mountainGet to my dad’s cabin

And have a grand old timeSit by the fire and feeling sublime

Drink hot chocolateAnd staying up late

Oh I love my dad’s cabinSitting high so high on the MOUNTAIN!

Jackie Ng’s PoemThere once lived a little girl in old AlpacoThat wanted to eat a good burritoBut her mother wanted to eat a good tacoHer mother didn’t care which they hadAs long as it had a filling of cheeriosSo said the little girl with cheer she did‘Why don’t we have both’?

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