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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
Presented by Jack Brooks and Ryan Rittenberry
The Early Years
Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on January 6, 1878. He left school in eighth grade to work long hours delivering milk and other odd jobs to help bring money to his poor family.
Biography
Spanish-American War
When he turned 19, Carl Sandburg left home to become a traveling hobo and work in labor farms. A year later, he joined the Spanish-American War and serves as a private for five months before returning to his hometown, Galesburg, Illinois, to enroll as a special student at Lombard College.
Family
His Parents, August and Clara Johnson moved to America from Sweden. While working on a railroad, and meeting many "August Johnson's" August decided to rename the family, to Sandburg. Carl Sandburg married Lillian (Paula) Steichan while living in Milwaukee, working as a newspaper reporter. His Parents, August and Clara Johnson
Education & Poetry
In grade school, Sandburg was known for his writing, he got attention from a professor by the name of Philip Green Wright, without Phillip Carl might not have continued writing poetry, for Philip was a major influence to Carl, encouraging him to keep writing. Carl Sandburg attended Lombard, but never recieved any type of diploma, however he did recieve honorary degrees from Lombard, Knox College, and Northwestern University. After college, and living in Milwaukee, he moved to Chicago, where he worked for the Chicago Daily News, while working here, he got involved with "Poetry: a Magazine of Verse" an article published by Harriet Monroe. Harriet Monroe loved Sandburg's poetry, and encouraged him to keep writing so she could publish his poetry in her magazine. Sandburg won 3 Pulitzer Prizes, 2 of which for his Poetry. Sandburg is most well-known for his works on "Chicago" and his study of Abraham Lincoln which produced two poems: "Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow" and "Abraham Lincoln".
The Poems
"All Day Long" & "The Fog"
Poems
The Fog
The Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
All Day Long
All Day Long
All day long in fog and wind,
The waves have flung their beating crests
Against the palisades of adamant.
My boy, he went to sea, long and long ago,
Curls of brown were slipping underneath his cap,
He looked at me from blue and steely eyes;
Natty, straight and true, he stepped away,
My boy, he went to sea.
All day long in fog and wind,
The waves have flung their beating crests
Against the palisades of adamant.
Poetry to Personal
In Carl Sandburgs "All Day Long" he describes losing a loved one as they set journey to sea. This is a depressing feeling, that many of us can relate to. Sandburg personally grew up with a rough childhood, his family was very poor, and he had to work, and even had to go to war. The depressing mood of this poem makes sense, given the sad times he's gone through.
Scansion
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.