Please create a NEW POST below to answer the Following Question (MINIMUM of 50 words):
Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” and Carl Sandberg’s “Chicago” both praise American ingenuity and the working class. Compare and Contrast these 2 poems and the ways in which they express their views on America.
Mrs. Reed Example: “In reading Walt Whitman’s “I Hear American Singing” he glorifies the working man and their daily tasks describing “the carpenter singing….the mason singing” using parallelism of the sounds of their jobs to show the unified chorus of the young immigrants of this country building their new nation. Similarly in Carl Sandberg’s “Chicago” he parallels the “Hog butcher….tool maker….player with railroads” to demonstrate the hard work that he respects from these residents of Chicago. These two poems contrast each other in their tone where Whitman’s founders of our nation are “singing” showing a harmonious creation of America, Sandberg’s Chicago natives are “wicked….crooked….or brutal” revealing through this parallel thought that our nation was built on the blood, sweat, and “broad shoulders” of the valiant working class.
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Reminders to include in your post:
- I recommend typing it in a word document 1st to check spelling, capitalization, and word count
- Author’s Name (Full Name or Last name, we never reference an author by their 1st name)
- “Evidence from the Text”
- Figurative Language (metaphor, parallelism, etc)
- Connection to the Author’s Purpose (What did they want to show or express?)
- UNDERLINE your Author’s Name
- BOLD your Devices
- HIGHLIGHT the Quotes from the Poems & the Keywords
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& Reply back to TWO People of if you agree or disagree with their analysis and WHY (Meaning you give them another example to think on)
