On Carl Sandburg's War Poems

Carl Sandgurg was an outstanding writer and an unique poet in modern literatural history in America.He was the most important poet among "Chicago poets". As a poet who has experienced Spanish American War understood deeply that war was evil,cuel and absurd.This paper is to research Sandurg's deep consideration towards life,people and freedom in his war poems,combining his poems with artistic features of his poems.Firstly,through analysing the theme of life in his poems,the paper is to state his understanding on vicious essence of the war and reflect that Sandburg cherished the life and explored the life and death in natural situation.And then,the paper is to declare his class stand through analysing the theme of the people.Meanwhile,this paper is also to analyze the artistic features of his war poems:popular poetic expression,realistic theme,free style and unique poetic skills combined with art and reality.It is an ever-lasting charm to review Sandburg's poems.There is the same aspiration from the people around the world to counter power politics and pursue peace and democracy.As is testified,Sandburg was not only a "Poet of the people" who was concerned about people's suffering and misery,but also a hero who fully deserved and fighted against unjust war.