Soup
Soup - context Summary
Published in 1916
Published in Carl Sandburg’s 1916 collection Chicago Poems, "Soup" is a brief, plainspoken vignette of a notable man eating soup. The poem fixes on an ordinary bodily act while noting his public fame, collapsing distance between celebrity and common life. Placed in Sandburg’s early work, the piece exemplifies his democratic attention to everyday scenes and his economy of language in portraying social reality.
Read Complete AnalysesI saw a famous man eating soup. I say he was lifting a fat broth Into his mouth with a spoon. His name was in the newspapers that day Spelled out in tall black headlines And thousands of people were talking about him. When I saw him, He sat bending his head over a plate Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon.
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