I Hear American Singing Analysis

Is love the only word you can think of when thinking about romantic things? Love is not the only word that is associated with being romantic. There are words like happy, sad, upset, anger that are associated with being romantic. Romantic does not always have to be lovely; it also has a lot to do with emotions. “Danse russe” by William Carlos Williams, “I Hear American Singing” by Walt Whitman, and “Tia Chucha” by Luis J. Rodriguez all have at least one emotion, which makes these pieces or literary romantic. All of these pieces of literary are romantic because their either happy or has some type of emotion. “Danse russe” by William Carlos Williams is the most romantic, because the character in the poem is dancing happily and embrassing his lovely body but really inside he is lonely. “I Hear American Singing”, “Danse russe”, and “Tia Chucha” all have at least one emotion, which makes these pieces of literary romantic. The “I Hear American Singing” by Walt Whitman has a happy tone. “ Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs” {397}. This quote has many different emotions, such as happy, and joyous. By the characters singing this means that their happy about going there job, also evn having a job. Most of the feelings are happy, everyone is singing while going to work and as they are working they are singing at their jobs.
“I Hear American Singing”, “Danse russe”, and “Tia Chucha all have at least one emotion, which makes these pieces of literary romantic.
“Danse Russe” by William Carlos Williams is the most romantic because the character in the peom is embrassing his individualism and being happy with himself, while feeling lonely. “I in the north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror…I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades” {411}. The character in the poem loves being himself, he still has to find the missing puzzle piece that will make him complete, so he will not feel lonely
anymore.
“I Hear American Singing”, “Danse russe”, and “Tia Chucha all have at least one emotion, which makes these pieces of literary romantic. The emotion and the tone is “Tia Chucha” was happy and admiring. “I secretly admired Tia Chucha” {420}. This quote explains that her nephew loves and admires her, because Tia is always herself and does what she wants and does not really care what other people say about her. This quote also explains more about transcendentalism, and becoming your own individual. Tia Chucha is a great example of individualism. This poem is romantic because it emotions, such ashappiness and love.
Words like happy, sad, upset, anger are mostly emotional words that can also be used when speaking about romantic things. “Danse russe” by William Carlos , “Song Of Myself” by Walt Whitman, and “Tia Chucha” by Luis J. Rodriguez all has at least one of these emotions. All of these pieces of literary are romantic because their either happy or has some type of emotion. In all the poems in this paper all have tents and characterics of being a romantic piece of literary. “Danse russe” by William Carlos Williams is the most romantic, because the character in the poem is dancing happily but really inside he is lonely.

Transcendentalism

Tatiana Walker

IB American Literature
Ms. Cervera
12 December
Word Count: 591

The Language of Literature, American Literature, 2007 Arthur N Applebee, Andrea B. Bermudez, Sheridan Belau, Rebekah Kaplan, Peter Elbow, Susan Hinds, Judith A. Langer, James Marshall