Poetry Collection 1: Chicago and Wilderness by Carl Sandburg

How does the speaker in “Chicago” portray the city?

• as a cold, aloof, yet cunning boy

• as an experienced, serious, and wise elderly adult

• a city that has negatives and positives ; which makes a city.

• A city with lots of crimes, violence, and malls.

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What animals does the speaker in “Wilderness” say he has within him? Choose three options.

• fox

• mockingbird

• turtle

• bear

• fish

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In “Wilderness,” what do the animals the speaker says he has inside him represent?

• his ancestors

• aspects of his human nature

• the wild side of him

• the wild, unpredictable world

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Vocabulary: The cunning hero used ingenious disguises to save his companions from the monster.

• clever in a deceptive way

• deceptive in a cruel way

• handsome and brave

• mean and spiteful

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Which of the following best states the theme of “Chicago”?

• People love their birthplaces, no matter how brutal and poverty stricken those places may be.

• Like people, cities grow up with their own personalities and have both good and bad traits.

• In its early days, Chicago had more variety and activity than any other American city.

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Which statement best explains the function of this opening passage from “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.…

• It defends Chicago to its critics.

• It criticizes Chicago for its bad deeds.

• It describes Chicago by naming the functions it performs through it's working class.

• It explains the origins of Chicago's many nicknames.

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In “Wilderness,” what is Sandburg’s attitude toward the wilderness he has inside himself?

• He welcomes it because it is part of what makes him human.

• He dislikes it because it is primitive and ancient.

• He distrusts it because it makes him wild and unpredictable.

• He hates it because it is causes him want to be cruel and to kill.

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Read this excerpt from “Wilderness.”

There is a hog in me … a snout and a belly … a machinery for eating and grunting … a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

What does the speaker mean when he says “[T]he wilderness will not let it go”?

• People are entirely physical beings and are no more spiritual than a hog.

• Unlike the hog and other animals, people can make choices about how they live.

• These aspects of the hog are part of who he is and he cannot change that.

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In the concluding paragraph of "Wilderness," the speaker says,

For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

What does the speaker mean in calling himself "keeper of the zoo"?

• He is responsible for controlling and directing his impulses and emotions.

• Unlike an animal, he is a wholly reasonable creature, not governed by impulse and instinct.

• Unlike other people, he is filled with irrational impulses and feelings that he struggles to control.

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In the poem "Chicago" which figurative language is used the most throughout the poem?

• Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech in which words evoke the actual sound of the thing they refer to or describe. .

• personification to give human characteristics, such as emotions and behaviors, to non-human things,

• simile is a figure of speech and type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.”

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