Page 206 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit

“Chicago”
by Carl Sandburg, pages 85-86

Vocabulary
brawling – fighting noisily

1. Who or what is the speaker addressing in this poem?

2. How does the speaker handle complaints about the city?

3. Comment briefly on the form of this poem.

4. Earlier in the anthology, we encountered a poet whose long, sweeping lines and celebratory
tone clearly seem to have influenced Sandburg. Name the poet.

“Fog”
by Carl Sandburg, page 86

Vocabulary
haunches – hips and thighs

1. Is Sandburg’s comparison of the fog to a cat a metaphor or a simile?

2. Why do you think Sandburg chose to leave white space between the first two lines of the
poem and the last four?

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