It Is Much
It Is Much - context Summary
From Chicago Poems (1916)
Published in 1916 within Chicago Poems, this short piece frames city night life with Sandburg’s characteristic urban attention. It contrasts outward glamour and hidden hardship among women who work or wait in the streets, repeating a resigned recognition that stability and a secure tomorrow matter deeply. The poem situates personal vulnerability against the city’s lights and shadows, reflecting the collection’s interest in modern urban experience.
Read Complete AnalysesWomen of night life amid the lights Where the line of your full, round throats Matches in gleam the glint of your eyes And the ring of your heart-deep laughter: It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow. Women of night life along the shadows, Lean at your throats and skulking the walls, Gaunt as a bitch worn to the bone, Under the paint of your smiling faces: It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.
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