The details from "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg that reflect characteristics of modernism are;
1. The poem explores the disconnect that people who live in cities feel toward nature.
2. Sandburg captures the essence of city life through the diverse images of Chicago’s residents.
In this poem, the poet eulogizes Chicago for the different types of people that can be found therein struggling to survive. There are people of different professions there.
Modernism is an individualistic way of life that stems away from tradition. The dustiness of the city shows alienation from nature.
Also, the different sets of people from good to bad highlight the individualistic lifestyle that marks modernism.
During the depression people were unemployed some starving, uprooted from homes that had been around for generations, ghettos, millions of lives altered.
