作为美国二十世纪最伟大的诗人和作家之一,卡尔·桑伯格是美国作家当中继沃尔特·惠特曼之后唯一能被称为“人民的诗人”的诗人。在诗歌创作上,他师承了惠特曼的自由体诗歌的文体形式,沿用了长句的写作风格,以及罗列人、事和物的写作技巧,采用人民的语言创作以及诗歌里重复和平行结构的修辞手段。从而进一步使自由体诗歌更加为人民所接受,也在极大程度上体现了这两位诗人的亲民性。 As one of the greatest twentieth-century poets and writers in the United States, Carl Thornberg is the only poet in the United States who relayed Walt Whitman after he became known as the “poet of the people.” In poetry, he taught Whitman’s stylistic form of free-form poetry, followed a long sentence writing style, and listed the writing skills of people, things and things, using the people’s language creation and the repetition and parallel structure in poetry Rhetorical device. Thus further making the liberal poems more acceptable to the people and also to a great extent reflecting the affinity of the two poets.