1. Carl Sandburg By: Nicholas Keifer

2. Background  Poet  Son of Swedish Immigrants  Born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois  Forced to leave school after 8 th grade  To help support his family  At 19 he set out to see the country  By hitching rides on freight trains

3. Background  Enlisted in the Army  Spanish-American wars is being fought  Did not see combat  In 1912 he settled in Chicago and became a newspaper reporter  Also he published poetry in a poetry magazine  Later in life he begins touring the country and becomes a folk singer

4. Background  Received a Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems, and another for his multi-volume biography of Lincoln  Was asked to address a joint secession of Congress on the 150 th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth

5. Major Works  Grass  Ready to Kill  Chicago  Fog  Happiness

6. Influences  Walt Whitman  American poet, essayist and journalist  Abraham Lincoln  16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865

7. Historical Background  Born the second of seven children in 187  Paid for the publication of his first volume of poetry, a pamphlet called Reckless Ecstasy (1904)  Worked for the Social-Democrat Party in Wisconsin  Acted as secretary to the first Socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912

8. Birth/Death  Born in Galesburg, Illinois, on January 6, 1878  January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967  He died from Heart failure in Flat Rock, North Carolina, on July 22, 1967

9. Quotes  Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.  A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.  All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

10. POEM: GRASS  PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo, Shovel them under and let me work-- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

11. Literary Elements  I am using the poem "Grass" by Carl Sandburg. In this poem the lines one through four. " Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work-- I am the grass; I cover all. And Pile them high at Gettysburg..." made me think of imagism. It made me thing imagism because it made the picture some of the battlefields I have visited or even the pictures I have seen form different wars. When it says "I am the grass; I cover all." I have the picture of the battlefield in Gettysburg were all there is is a big open field were hundreds of men died fighting for the independence. That picture does show what the author is saying. Because many people do not realize how many died there one cause it is covered by new grass. It symbolizes that over time you will lose thoughts or memories of what may or really happened. Over time the truth will be covered up by something and in this case grass. This is my example of imagism from the poem Grass.

12. Sources  "Grass, by Carl Sandburg." Poetry Archive | Poems. Web. 15 Nov. 2010..  "Answers.com - What Was the Cause of Carl Sandburg's Death." WikiAnswers - The Q&A Wiki. Web. 15 Nov. 2010..  "Carl Sandburg." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 15 Nov. 2010..

13. QUESTIONS  What war being fought during the time he was in the army?  _________  What is two for his major works?  _________, _________(_________, _________, _________)  Who are his influences?  _________, _________  Worked for the _________-_________ Party in Wisconsin?  Born in _________, Illinois January 6, ____, Died July 22, ____ because of _____ failure.

14. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS  What war being fought during the time he was in the army?  Spanish-American wars is being fought  What is two for his major works?  _________, _________(_________, _________, _________)  Who are his influences?  __________, ___________  Worked for the _________-_________ Party in Wisconsin?  Born in _________, Illinois January 6, ____, Died July 22, ____ because of _____ failure.

15. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS  What war being fought during the time he was in the army?  Spanish-American wars is being fought  What is two for his major works?  Grass, Chicago (Ready to Kill, Fog, Happiness)  Who are his influences?  __________, ___________  Worked for the _________-_________ Party in Wisconsin?  Born in _________, Illinois January 6, ____, Died July 22, ____ because of _____ failure.

16. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS  What war being fought during the time he was in the army?  Spanish-American wars is being fought  What is two for his major works?  Grass, Chicago (Ready to Kill, Fog, Happiness)  Who are his influences?  Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln  Worked for the _________-_________ Party in Wisconsin?  Born in _________, Illinois January 6, ____, Died July 22, ____ because of _____ failure.

17. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS  What war being fought during the time he was in the army?  Spanish-American wars is being fought  What is two for his major works?  Grass, Chicago (Ready to Kill, Fog, Happiness)  Who are his influences?  Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln  Worked for the Social-Democrat Party in Wisconsin?  Born in _________, Illinois January 6, ____, Died July 22, ____ because of _____ failure.

18. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS  What war being fought during the time he was in the army?  Spanish-American wars is being fought  What is two for his major works?  Grass, Chicago (Ready to Kill, Fog, Happiness)  Who are his influences?  Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln  Worked for the Social-Democrat Party in Wisconsin?  Born in Galesburg, Illinois January 6, 1878, Died July 22, 1967 because of heart failure.