As one of the most prominent poets of the USA, Carl Sandburg revealed numerous significant issues of the US development in the 20th century. In his poem Chicago, Sandburg depicts the American city as vibrant, progressive, and going through transformations. Despite several dark sides of its development, Chicago appears to be a beautiful and attractive city, worthy of glorifying. Strong imagery, unusual structure, divided into short and long stanzas, and metaphorical language make the poem especially picturesque and persuasive. Considering the structure of the poem is apparent that the poem is divided into two types of stanzas – short and long. The poem begins with five short lines, which seems to be the epigraph or short prolog to the main
