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chicago by carl sandburg
1 hog butcher for the world,
2 tool maker, stacker of wheat,
3 player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler;
4 stormy, husky, brawling,
5 city of the big shoulders:
6 they tell me you are wicked and i believe them, for i have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
7 and they tell me you are crooked and i answer: yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
8 and they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: on the faces of women and children i have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
9 and having answered so i turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and i give them back the sneer and say to them:
10 come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
11 flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;
12 fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
13 bareheaded,
14 shoveling,
15 wrecking,
16 planning,
17 building, breaking, rebuilding,
18 under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,
19 under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,
20 laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,
21 bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people.
22 laughing!
23 laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of
24 youth, half - naked, sweating, proud to be
25 hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and freight handler to the nation.
which details from “chicago” by carl sandburg reflect characteristics of modernism? select the two correct answers.
sandburg captures the essence of city life through the diverse images of chicago’s residents.
the poem challenges rules about point of view, rhyme scheme, and meter.
the poem explores the disconnect that people who live in cities feel toward nature.
sandburg personifies chicago with the line “come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud.”

Explanation:

Modernist literature often features experimental form (rejecting traditional poetic structures like rhyme and meter) and focuses on the raw, unvarnished experience of modern urban life, centering the diverse, working-class inhabitants of cities.

1. Sandburg's focus on the diverse, working people of Chicago captures the modernist interest in urban, everyday life.
2. The poem breaks traditional poetic rules (no consistent rhyme, meter, or standard point of view structure), which is a core modernist characteristic.

The other options do not align with key modernist traits for this work: the poem does not emphasize a human-nature disconnect as a central theme, and the specified line is a celebration of the city, not a sentimentality that defines modernism.

Answer:

• Sandburg captures the essence of city life through the diverse images of Chicago's residents.
• The poem challenges rules about point of view, rhyme scheme, and meter.