Carl Sandburg: The Peoples Poet

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Carl Sandburg The Peoples Poet
Laura Marion Honors English Winter 2006
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Biographical Information

• January 6, 1878
• Galesburg, Illinois
• Wanted to write at six years old
• Stopped school after eighth grade
• Lombard College 1902

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Biographical Information

• Spanish-American War
• Wisconsin Social Democratic Party
• Chicago Daily News
• Finnish Revolution

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Biographical Information

• Married Lilian Steichen in 1908
• Janet, Margaret, and Helga
• Connemara, Flat Rock in 1945
• Hospitalized 1965
• July 22, 1967
• Buried- Remembrance Rock

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Literary Works

• In Reckless Ecstasy- 1904
• Chicago- 1914
• Fog- 1916
• Complete Poems- 1950

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Literary Works

• Mary Lincoln Wife and Widow- 1932
• Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years- 1939
• Photographs of Abraham Lincoln- 1944
• Abraham Lincoln The War Years- 1950

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Literary Works

• Rootabaga Stories- 1922
• When Death Came April Twelve 1945
• Remembrance Rock- 1948
• Always the Young Strangers- 1953

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Literary Style

• EE Cummings
• Ezra Pound
• T.S. Eliot
• Walt Whitman

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Literary Style

• Slang in Chicago Poems
• Realism in Chicago
• Impressionism

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Conclusion

• The people of the United States love the
  poetry of Carl Sandburg because it is about the
  unimportant things that really are not
  unimportant at all, and Abraham Lincoln inspired
  Sandburg to write about those unimportant
  things.

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Bibliography

• http//www.nevadahumanities.org
• http//www.wikipedia.org
• http//www.uncp.edu
• http//www.sandburg.org
• http//www.abm-enterprises.net
• http//www.lucidcafe.com
• http//www.nanogirl.com
• http//www.poetenladen.de
• http//www.applewoodbooks.com
• http//www.biblio.com