Walt Whitman was a journalist and poet‚ who was born on May 31‚ 1819 in West Hills‚ New York. Whitman shied away from the normal aesthetic form‚ transformed traditional epics‚ and reflected the nature of the American experience and its democracy. Because of this‚ Whitman is considered to be one of America’s most influential poets (Biography.com). Under the title of the poem‚ HUSH’D BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY‚ Walt Whitman chose to include the date that the poem was written‚ which was May 4th‚ 1865. This
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Being referred to as a melting pot‚ The United States is full of different people and cultures. Many cities are influenced by these cultures‚ some more so than others‚ which results in very different ideals‚ beliefs‚ and financial resources. The difference between New York City‚ New York and Lampasas‚ Texas include ideological beliefs‚ ethnic diversity‚ and income and expenditures. In this current presidential election‚ as well as others before it‚ the states of Texas and New York as a whole
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The poems I hear America Singing by Walt Whitman and A Nation’s Strength by Ralph W. Emerson are two poems that are from two different literature time frames but remarkably they have similarities and also some differences. Emerson was a harvard educated white man who wrote poems and became one of the key figures in the Romantic era including Transcendentalism. While Walt Whitman was the son of a farmer brother of eight other siblings whose love for America can be traced back to his own upbringing
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Taming Manhattan is about the economic‚ physical and social changes that urbanized Manhattan from country side and farmland‚ during the antebellum era‚ to the city it has become today. It was not the New York City we think about today‚ “With the municipal government struggling to keep up with the growing city‚ the streets were left in disarray…” (7) There was manure from livestock such as pigs and cows‚ dogs roamed the streets freely and trash lined the streets. These were all very common views in
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Walt Whitman describes the United States of America by stating‚ “The genius of the Unites States is not best or most in its executive or legislatures... America is the races of races.” Whitman uses United States of America and America interchangeably‚ igniting this habit as a social norm throughout history. With this repetitive‚ conscious replacement‚ “America” has become synonymous with the United States of America. However‚ “America” began to develop a meaning beyond the geographic location. It
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After reading “Theme for English B‚” “Let America be America‚” and “I‚Too.” I have concluded that all the poems are talking about how even though they might not all be the same color or have the same purpose in America‚ it is still everyone’s home. You learn from different people and they learn from you and what ‚might be easy for you might not be easy for them because sometimes some people in this country are treated better than others. In the poem ‘Let America Be America” there is a line that says
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Walter Whitman Jr. was born in 1819 in Long Island to New York Dutch farmers. He was the second of nine children in a nondescript lower class Quaker family. He grew up with little formal education‚ and because of this‚ started his literary career as a compositor for a local newspaper. As he flourished in the printing trade‚ with skills that were largely self-taught‚ Walt “fell in love with the written word” (Poets.org). From then on‚ he ferociously read classical literature such as Dante‚ Shakespeare
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“I Hear America Singing” and “Let America Be America Again” are great poems‚ that give us insight to the culture of our country and reflect the ideas of the day. There are many differences and similarities in both of these poems. America is suppose to be a free country you can have laws but don’t have segregating laws and laws that make people not want to be in this country because of the laws. Both of these poems have a bunch of really great information in them to write a similarities and differences
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The poet of “I hear America singing”‚ “I‚ too” and “Where is my country” are telling their feelings about America. Their race is different and they have different views toward this country. Although the three poems are talking about America‚ the poem’s theme and the mood are kind of different. “I hear America singing” is a poem that describes the sound of working. This poem’s theme is people who work made America better. The poet is proud of it “Singing with open mouths their strong melodious
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America‚ The Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates 1913 Lyrics of Song O beautiful for spacious skies‚ For amber waves of grain‚ For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee‚ And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet‚ Whose stern impassion’d stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw‚ Confirm thy soul in self-control‚ Thy liberty in law!
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