ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Chicago is a literary artwork by Carl Sandburg, written in 1914 to describe the city of Chicago, its people and the good and bad therein. The piece is the prime of nine poems named the Chicago Poems.

Detailed explanation-2: -’Chicago’ expresses the poet’s admiration and pride in Chicago. The poet narrates what he observed and heard in the city. The speaker praises Chicago for its aesthetic nature and the flourishing industries. He portrays Chicago as a big, vibrant, and developing place.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sandburg penned it during the summer of 1913 upon moving to Chicago. It first appeared in Poetry magazine in March 1914 and two years later was published with the collection entitled Chicago Poems. In this lesson students will look at Sandburg’s poem in a literary, historical, and biographical context.

Detailed explanation-4: -Free Verse. “Chicago” is written in free verse. It doesn’t have a rhyme scheme or any sort of regular meter, and it’s not written in a recognizable form (like a sonnet or villanelle).

Detailed explanation-5: -"Chicago” is a poem by Carl Sandburg about the city of Chicago that became his adopted home. It first appeared in Poetry, March 1914, the first of nine poems collectively titled “Chicago Poems". It was republished in 1916 in Sandburg’s first mainstream collection of poems, also titled Chicago Poems.