Where I Come From And Sandburg's 'Chicago'

Brewster’s “Where I Come From” and Sandburg’s “Chicago” portrays urban environments, exploring how the poets feel towards their respective cities. In “Where I come from” the poet was being critical towards the city life and show the contrast between urban and rural, whereas “Chicago” expresses his fondness towards the city even if there was many problems to it. In “Where I come from” Elizabeth Brewster makes a comparison between modern city and rural area. She did this by using tones and vocabulary, which allows the reader to picture the images clearly. As the reader read along the poem they can picture “polluted”, “crowded” and “noisy” to the city and “quiet”, “peaceful” and “calm” towards the countryside.
The structure of the poem is free verse and the syllables in the first stanza are messy. In stanza one the there is more syllables and they are all different. This could suggest that the city life is untidy. People
She pointed out the bad things about the city, so people will be willing to change this situation. “Chicago” is a tough place for tough people. This poem is a about the strength and power of the city and the citizens who lived in Chicago. The poem portrays an image of a vibrant, cunning, wicked and joyful of the modern city life. In the first stanza, the poet started off tough and strong. “Butcher” “Maker” and “Stacker” from these jobs we can tell that these are tough works, and the way it is organized makes the stanza energetic, powerful and fast pace when it comes through even though it doesn’t have any rhythm. From the word “me” we can tell that the poem is said by a speaker. Although the poem didn’t know who the speaker is, but by the way he present the poem we can tell that he really love Chicago. WE can tell that this speaker are pride in celebrating their home city and joyful for being able to share his felling with the