“I Sit and Look Out” captures the corruption of the world. Walt Whitman, an influential American poet, lived in the 1800s, a time that saw things like political slander, Trail of Tears, slavery, and the Civil War. In this poem, the speaker is merely an
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Long I roamed the woods of the North--long I watched Niagara pouring; I travelled the prairies over, and slept on their breast--I crossed the Nevadas, I crossed the plateaus; I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sailed out to sea; I sailed through the storm, I was refr...
Walt Whitman: Poems 1. An old man bending, I come among new faces, Years, looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, "Come tell us, old man," (as from young men and maidens that love me, Years hence) "of these scenes, of these furious passions, these chances,...
One’s-Self I Sing. by Walt Whitman - ONE’S-SELF I sing—a simple, separate Person; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse. Of Physiology
完型填空: Walt Whitman was a famous American poet (诗人).He was born___1___ March 31, 1819, in Long Island. There were nine___2___n his family, and he was the second. _3___he was four years old, his family moved to Brooklyn because his family was too poor. His childhood ...
In it, Whitman discusses how everything that has ever existed or will ever exist is connected. This poem is regarded as one of Whitman's finest poems. Its themes of interconnectedness, spirituality, and the beauty of nature, as well as its innovative free-form style, have made it a ...
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” and “O Captain! My Captain!” (1866) are two of his more famous poems. A poet who was ardently singing on life and himself, Whitman is today claimed as one of the few truly great American men of letters. ...
Walt Whitman: Poems 1. Poets to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and Democracy, and what we are for; But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, You must justify me. 2. I but write one or two indicative words for the future,...