I Hear America Singing
I Hear America Singing
Walt was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a port of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Walt wanted his poems to be spoken aloud because the words become more powerful when they can transcend the page. Walt Whitman wrote “I Hear America Singing” in the year of 1966. In “I Hear America Singing,” the speaker describes various “carols” that arise from different figures in the American working class as people go about their work. He hears the mechanics, the carpenter, the mason, and the boatman singing. The deckhand, shoemaker, hatter, woodcutter, and the plough-boy sing their own songs, as well. The speaker celebrates each individual …show more content…
The allusion of this poem is that each singer signs out of individual distinction. A consonance is on stanza 14, “…strong melodious songs.” There’s also diction in stanza 2, “…mechanics…blithe and strong,” The Imagery is on stanza 3, “The carpenter…as he measures his plank or beam,” There’s an assonance is on stanza 10 & 11, “…the girl sewing or washing,” The word “carols” in stanza 1 pertains to Christmas, but it’s being used as songs.
The attitude of the poem is optimistic and happiness. For example, in stanza 1, “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,” There are several of shifts like in stanza 12, “…what belongs to the day-at night the party of young fellows…” There are shifts in time as well, like in stanza 8, “…on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,” The Tone of the poem is passive and reflective. The refrain of this poem is “singing”.
When I first read the title, “I Hear America Singing”, I thought of the working class, the flag...etc. After I read the poem and did my analysis, I looked back at the title and it was about the working class. The U.S. is not like any other nation. We have rights to do decide what we want and/or need. We get to decide what to do with our own money. We get to decide what to do with our own bodies without the government interfering in. This is why it’s called “The American
Walt was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a port of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Walt wanted his poems to be spoken aloud because the words become more powerful when they can transcend the page. Walt Whitman wrote “I Hear America Singing” in the year of 1966. In “I Hear America Singing,” the speaker describes various “carols” that arise from different figures in the American working class as people go about their work. He hears the mechanics, the carpenter, the mason, and the boatman singing. The deckhand, shoemaker, hatter, woodcutter, and the plough-boy sing their own songs, as well. The speaker celebrates each individual …show more content…
The allusion of this poem is that each singer signs out of individual distinction. A consonance is on stanza 14, “…strong melodious songs.” There’s also diction in stanza 2, “…mechanics…blithe and strong,” The Imagery is on stanza 3, “The carpenter…as he measures his plank or beam,” There’s an assonance is on stanza 10 & 11, “…the girl sewing or washing,” The word “carols” in stanza 1 pertains to Christmas, but it’s being used as songs.
The attitude of the poem is optimistic and happiness. For example, in stanza 1, “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,” There are several of shifts like in stanza 12, “…what belongs to the day-at night the party of young fellows…” There are shifts in time as well, like in stanza 8, “…on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,” The Tone of the poem is passive and reflective. The refrain of this poem is “singing”.
When I first read the title, “I Hear America Singing”, I thought of the working class, the flag...etc. After I read the poem and did my analysis, I looked back at the title and it was about the working class. The U.S. is not like any other nation. We have rights to do decide what we want and/or need. We get to decide what to do with our own money. We get to decide what to do with our own bodies without the government interfering in. This is why it’s called “The American