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Synthesizing your Understanding:
Reread the poem and underline sentences that you believe express important ideas or emotions and that will provide textual evidence to answer questions about the poem’s shifts, tone, and theme. Then respond to the questions below.
1. Shifts: What shifts can you identify in the poem? Record each line number at which you believe a shift occurs, and describe what kind of shift is occurring.
2. Attitude: What attitudes can you identify in this poem? What evidence (images, diction) helps you identify these attitudes, or tones?
3. Theme: What themes can you identify in this poem? What evidence helps you identify these themes?
Writing Prompt: Using textual evidence to support your thinking, summarize how Sandburg uses personification to convey his attitude toward the city of Chicago. Be sure to:
• Write a topic sentence that identifies the poem’s tone.
• Choose several pieces of appropriate textual evidence.
• Explain how your textual evidence conveyed the speaker’s tone.
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