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How did Carl Sandburg use personification in his poetry, and why did he use it so often?

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- Carl Sandburg used a lot of personification in his poem “Chicago”. He gave human characteristics to the city of Chicago as, if it was a person. The city described in the poem is living, breathing, vibrant.

- He used it often to see how the city has a lot of things in its shoulders

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