Compare And Contrast Chicago And Counting Graves

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Both “Chicago” and “Counting Graves” use vastly different structures to convey vastly different messages about the city. In “Chicago” the structure of the poem contains of several detailed stanzas. The stanzas has lots of adjectives that makes the poem sound more significant and makes the reader want to imagine in their head what is going on in the poem. Every adjective portrays the reality of what Chicago truly is like. In the beginning of the poem, there are sets of three lines for each stanza. Each stanza conveys some areas of Chicago that are seen as atrocious and dangerous, but the speaker only says it with integrity. The speaker is not ashamed of telling the readers the truth about Chicago. The change in the lines for each stanza illustrates