View Chicago Poem By Carl Sandburg Pictures. Sunday night and the park policemen tell each other it. Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;
Chicago is a poem by carl sandburg, about the u.s.
Sandburg was inspired to write it one day out walking near chicago's grant park. I first read carl sandburg in the fall of 1998, while i was visiting chicago (i went to college at northwestern in nearby evanston from 1991 to 1995). Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation's freight handler, stormy, husky, brawling, city of the big shoulders: It is easy to see how it draws directly on sandburg's life in chicago, because it speaks powerfully of the the poems that operate on a universal level, seemingly independent of location?