Carl Sandburg was an outstanding modern American poet, many of his poems voice the development of the American society and express and deliver his concern towards the civilians and those poems received a warm welcome from the populace as well as the academic world. However, his nature poems which convey considerable aesthetic thought and which portray grand beauty do not gain much attention from the public. Through the analysis of fourteen of Carl Sandburg's most artistically designed nature poems, aims at revealing his aesthetic ideas in nature poetry and meanwhile, to a certain degree, exposing to the readers the charm of it. 

Niu Yan. Aesthetic Ideology — An Interpretation of Carl Sandburg's Nature Poems. Frontiers in Art Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 13: 16-20. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2022.041304.

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