(1) Characterize the sturdy American figures in Sandburg’s “I Am the People, the Mob,” “Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight,” and “Chicago,” with the New Englanders in Robert Frost’s poems, Chicagoans in Gwendolyn Brooks’ ghetto pictures, Harlemites in Langston Hughes’ poems, and Midwesterners in Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology.
(2) Analyze the imagism of Frost’s “Grass” or “Fog,” H. D.’s “Pear Tree,” and William Carlos Williams’ “Red Wheelbarrow.” Determine which of the verses depends most heavily on sense impressions.
(3) Contrast “Chicago” and “Fog” in terms of nature images. Which of the two poems ends more jubilantly?
(4) How is Sandburg’s “Grass” more realistic than his other poems?
