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Abstract
Carl August Sandburg (1878-1967) is probably one of the
most controversial American literary figures because the greater
majority of critics undermine his worth as an innovative poet just
for the mere fact that he was a very popular poet ”using everyday
speech as his diction” (Callahan, 1987).
Those critics claim that although Sandburg succeeded in
attracting the masses’s attention, he missed the critical interest and
acclaim that his contemporary poet Robert Frost enjoyed while
standing in the public limelight. Moreover, unlike Frost. who once
having decided that poetry was his vocation devoted himselfsinglehandedly
to it, Sandburg divided his energies in working as a
journalist, poet, historian, and writer of children’s stories (Shucarc
et al, 1989)
This controversial issue is at the heart of the present academic
study as it attempts to prove, through a detailed systematic
linguistic analysis, that Sandburg’s style and technique are worthy
of critical acclaim since they show that Sandburg is really one of the
most outstanding poetic innovators in the American poetry of the
beginning of this century.
This study concentrates on analysing and examining features
of foregrounding In the poetry of Carl Sandburg with special
reference to four of his major poems: Chicago (1916), Prairie
(1918), Good Morning, America (1928), and The People, Yes
(1936). .These poems were selected as they mark transitional