How did Carl Sandburg use personification in his poetry, and why did he use it so often?

- Carl Sandburg used a lot of personification in his poem “Chicago”. He gave human characteristics to the city of Chicago as, if it was a person. The city described in the poem is living, breathing, vibrant.

- He used  it often to see how the city has a lot of things in its shoulders

Explanation:

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.