“Chicago” by Carl Sandburg

1. “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg Personification

2. Carl Sandburg 1878-1967

3. Personification • Giving human traits to something not human. • Ex: The wheels whined.

4. wanton • done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty. • 2. deliberate and without motive or provocation; uncalled-for; headstrong; willful: Why jeopardize your career in such a wanton way?

5. 1916 • "Chicago" is a poem by Carl Sandburg, about the U.S. city of Chicago.

6. Free Verse is a poem that doesn’t rhyme. • No rhyme, but still rhythm.

7. Urban life

8. Chicago-City of the big shoulders

9. Theme of progress vs. disillusionment

10. Blue Collar Worker

11. White Collar

12. Blue vs. White Collar

13. #1 Decide your city:Beverly Hills • Rodeo Drive Shopping • Fake Boobs Paris Hilton • Movie Stars Fake Blonds • Rich Louis Vuitton • Designer Clothes Palm trees • Sunshine little dogs, Gucci, expensive cars, • Fake tans, hair salon, Sax, Tiffanys, Plastic surgery • Mansions • Tourists • Botox • Ferraris, … # Step 2 Brainstorm 25+

14. Step 3 • Decide how you want to personify your city. • Barbie doll old lady (Joan Rivers)

15. Beverly Hills Designer shopper for the world Movie Maker, Stacker of $100 bills Player with Botox and the Nation’s tanning salon provider Fake, rich, snobby City of the plastic Barbie

16. Steps • Step 1 Decide your city • Step 2 Brainstorm 25 associations with the city. • Step 3 Decide how you want your city to be personified. (How will you draw the city?) • Step 4 Write the rough draft • Step 5 Type the final draft and print two copies. • Step 6 Draw the picture.

17. New York City • Overseer for the World, • Trend Maker, Stacker of Banknotes • Player of fate, and the Nation’s Big Screen Capital • City of the Insomnia • They tell me you are ruthless and I believe them, for I have seen your • stock brokers in their exchanges playing dice with peoples futures • And they me you are careless and I answer : Yes, it is true I have seen • the gang member kill and go free to commit crime again • And they tell me you are merciless and my reply is: On the faces of • taxi drivers, office workers, and bums I have seen the marks of • suffocation in this city of traps and vice • 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 • Come and show me another place with constant focus, straight on ahead, so • proud to be endowed with such an honorable place in the world. • Flinging your bets in amid the sea of skeptics and crimes here is a daring • adventures set vivid against the merciful, careful, so clever city • Suit Fitted • Eyes Exhausted • Head Bent • But Still Determined • Under the towering pillars of hope, joy all over his face laughing with ecstasy, • Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing eternally, • Laughing even as the youth laughs who has never known failure • Grinning and Laughing that under his ribs is the beat of human kind • and under his hair are the hopes and thoughts • Laughing! • Laughing the warm, friendly, confident laughter of an ambitious business man • grinning, proud to be an Insomniac, Trend Maker, Stacker of Bank Notes, • Player with fate and overseer of the World.

18. New York City • Overseer for the World, • Trend Maker, Stacker of Banknotes • Player of fate, and the Nation’s Big Screen Capital • City of the Insomnia