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CHICAGO by Carl Sandburg FULL Poem Greatest AudioBooks
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CHICAGO by Carl Sandburg - FULL Poem | Greatest AudioBooks -Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, writer, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as a major figure in contemporary literature , especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life , and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America. • (Summary adapted from wikipedia) • CHICAGO: • 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: • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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: • Come and show me another city with lifted head singing • so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. • Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on • job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the • little soft cities; • Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning • as a savage pitted against the wilderness, • Bareheaded, • Shoveling, • Wrecking, • Planning, • Building, breaking, rebuilding, • Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with • white teeth, • Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young • man laughs, • Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has • never lost a battle, • Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. • and under his ribs the heart of the people, • Laughing! • Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of • Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog • Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with • Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation. • • ► https://www.GreatestAudioBooks.co • ► FACEBOOK: / greatestaudiobooks • ► TWITTER: / gaudiobooks • ► SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books: • / greatestaudiobooks • • READ along by clicking (CC) for Closed Caption Transcript! • LISTEN to the entire audiobook for free! • Chapter listing and length: • Chicago by Carl Sandburg - 00:02:26 • • #audiobook #audiobooks #freeaudiobooks #greatestaudiobooks • #Chicago #CarlSandburg #poem • This video: Copyright 2018. Greatest Audio Books. All Rights Reserved.
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