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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Suez Canal
5,121 words... -joined in their purpose of returning home are the crowds, who arouse genuine curiosity on the part of the poet. The costume-attired crowds become meaningful to Whitman in their crossing from shore to shore, to eternity (a hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them as they cross), they share with the poet the weakness, the doubt and the suspicion (The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were they not in...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry By Walt Whitman
706 words"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by Walt Whitman In the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Walt Whitman glorifies the eternity of life. Life, as the main theme, is viewed by the poet in many images of humans, natural and man-made environment. Diversity, mutability and constant motion of life are symbolized in ordinary things: sea-gulls, reflection of the summer sky (epithet) in the water, shimmering track of beams (metaphor), sailors at work, pilots in their pilothouses, grey walls of the granite storehouses...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Persons Life
863 wordsOne and the Same Walt Whitman asks himself and the reader of the poem, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, what significance a persons life holds in the scope of densely populated planet. The poem explores the difficulties of discovering the relevance of life. The methods that helped Whitman grasp his own idea of the importance of life are defined with some simple yet insightful and convincing observations. By living under and for the standards of others, a person can never live a fulfilling life. Distingu...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Play A Role
974 wordsRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt WhitmansRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Recurring Images and Motifs in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry In the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman, there are many recurring images and motifs that can be seen. Whitman develops these images throughout the course of the poem. The most dominant of these are the linear notion of time, playing roles, and nature. By examining these motifs and tracing their development, ones unde...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Leaves Of Grass
1,515 wordsForged in the fire of revolution and defined by manifest destiny, America has always been the land of the individual. Although the American dream has not always been consistent, (married with 2. 5 kids, 2 cars, a dog and a satisfying job), the spirit of innovation, individuality and progress remains unchanged. The father of free verse, and perhaps the American perspective of poetry, Walt Whitman embodies these values in his life and work. First published in 1855 in Leaves of Grass, Song of Mysel...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Modern American Poetry
644 wordsTwo Poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are probably two of the most influential people in American poetry. They are regarded as the founders modern American poetry. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), for the time was breaking new ground with his diverse, energetic verse with regards to subject matter, form and style whether talking about overlooked objects in nature such as a single blade of grass or even our own hearing. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) while living a life of seclusion, never really...
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