This document summarizes three poems: "The Fog" by Carl Sandburg, "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, and an untitled poem. It discusses how "The Fog" was published as part of the Chicago poems collection and describes how cities and factories were expanding rapidly like fog. It also summarizes that "The Red Wheelbarrow" is an example of Imagist poetry that depicts a simple rural scene using free verse.

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2. The fog comes
on little cat feet
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on
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3. • The fog was published with the group
of poems known as the Chicago
poems. These poems were
published recently after a new
magazine, Poetry: a magazine of
verse, was published. This created
an influx of poets in the Chicago area
• At this time cities were rapidly
expanding, similar to the way that fog
can rapidly roll over a town.
• Additionally the factories from the
industrial revolution produced fog like
pollution.

4. So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
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5. • The Red Wheelbarrow is a great
example of the imagist style. The
poem describes an exact visual
image that makes a poetic
statement.
• Also, similar to many other
poems in the imagist movement,
this poem uses free verse.
• It also portrays the simplistic life
in rural areas that were slowly
disappearing as the industrial
revolution took over America.