– Carl August Sandburg
Poetry Short Answers
Q1.Explain the narrator’s experience in finding out what happiness is.
Answer : Internationally renowned Carl Sandburg was an American poet and journalist widely regarded as major figure in contemporary literature. Most of his poems ventilate American standards of life. He is the architect of the well-known anthology ‘Chicago Poems’. The narrator is on a quest for the real explanation of happiness.
Considering the professors and executives to be of the elite class he ventures into their domain for and answer but doesn’t get one. However, not contented, one Sunday afternoon he takes a stroll along the river. Desplaines where he comes across a group of Hungarian men and women revelling (partying) under a tree sipping beer and dancing to the tunes of the accordion. Seeing the joy, ecstasy and writ large on their faces the poet eventually finds an answer to his quest.
According to the Poet, happiness doesn’t come from success, wealth or fame. He establishes experience matters more than education with full contentment in the lap of Nature.
- Seeing helps one better in understanding than listening to Justify the statement with reference to the poem, Happiness.
Internationally renowned Carl Sandburg was an American poet and journalist widely regarded as a major figure in the contemporary literature. Most of his poems ventilate American standards of life. He is the architect of the well-known anthology ‘Chicago Poems’.
The narrator seeks to know what happiness is. He enquires many professors and top executives but in vain. One Sunday afternoon, he wanders along the river Desplaines. He comes across a crowd of Hungarians including women and children who are enjoying their food, drink, music and fun under the tree. Hence narrator realises that real happiness is living in present with contentment. It establishes that experie matters more than education. Wisdom lives in lives but not in libraries. Happiness does not lie in mere wealth, success or fame. Hence the statement is apt and befitting.
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