Poem Analysis: I Hear America Singing

1 The poem I selected is called “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman. The major theme I could find was how he could hear all the noises that go on around him in America and he compares the noises to singing. Some of the figurative language I saw was personification, metaphors, and repetition, which all help to show his meaning in this poem.The first figurative language I saw was personification. This was seen when he says that he couldhear America singing and how things belong to the day and others belong to the night. When hesaid that he could hear America singing he meant that the people doing their daily routines were singing while working and walking by. He also meant that people do things in the day such as go to work and go to the