Chicago

Introduction

The publication of Chicago Poems formed a commotion feature of the opening of matter that is novel both in subject matter and style. The theme scared and exasperated the conformists, who perseveres that Carl Sandburg's topics were crude, coarse, and barely poetic. The poetry itself could not be scanned in the conventional way, was very free verse, and could not be called poetically beautiful. Liberal critics and readers, however, think that Sandburg might be the great democratic poet called for by Walt Whitman and that his style of writing, his Whitmanesque barbaric yawp, was not only his own particular voice in ...