(PLS HELP 40 POINTS) The Whippoorwill
by Madison Julius Cawein

Part A

What is a theme of “The Whippoorwill”?

Peace found in nature can sustain one in the city.

One can find serenity and hope in nature.

Memories of our past will always linger.

The mind can play tricks on a person.
Question 2
Part B

How does the theme in Part A develop in the poem?

The countryside is full of the sounds of nature and the call of the whippoorwill.

The speaker regrets his move to the city and thinks only of his time in the countryside.

Coming home in the evening to his place in the city, the speaker hears a whippoorwill.

Even though the moon is hidden by smoke in the city, the speaker thinks of the sights and sounds of the country.

What images do you see in this stanza

Which of the following is a skill that would contribute to someone’s academic identity? a. researching b. marketing c. negotiating d. networking

Chicago by carl sandburg 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: they tell me you are wicked and i believe them, for i have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. and they tell me you are crooked and i yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. and they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: on the faces of women and children i have seen the marks of wanton hunger. and having answered so i turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and i give them back the sneer and say to them: come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, bareheaded, shoveling, wrecking, planning, building, breaking, rebuilding, under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, laughing! laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and freight handler to the nation. which type of figurative language does the poet use most often in "chicago"? a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification