Journal-" Crossing Brooklyn Ferry " - Walt Whitman " Crossing Brooklyn Ferry " is a poem told from a man on a ferry between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The journey begins with the man leaning over a railing look into the water. The man ( Walt Whitman ) sees the clouds and the sun set reflected in the water and personifies them as "you". Throughout the poem Whitman will personify many other things in the poem. The business people and workers on the ferry a reflectively "curious" to him.
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those that will come after. Whitman talks about the journey of life in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”‚ as he is taking a ferry ride. He illustrates the similarities of his life to those that will take the same trip through the visions and emotions that he ponders while on his voyage. Walt Whitman speaks to not only the physical aspects of going through life‚ but also the emotional and spiritual struggles that one must reconcile through the course of one’s life. Whitman takes his readers on a journey
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“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is a nine section poem written by Walt Whitman that was originally published in 1856‚ then revised and republished in 1881. The poem seems to be an attempt to address the future to an audience that is composed of people from the future. Whitman’s first section opens with imagery of what the character is seeing in his immediate vicinity. Whitman begins to consider the other people on the ferry with him and those that are on the other ferries on the river. With the words:
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Crossing Brooklyn Ferry is considered one of the greatest lyrical poems of all time. In Crossing Brooklyn Ferry‚ Walt Whitman uses connotative diction‚ prying questions‚ and critical reader engagement to convey a feeling of connection and unity of people through time. By using these certain rhetoric strategies‚ Whitman creates a piece of poetry that seems to be timeless. Whitman carefully chooses certain words and phrases that really highlight his intentions to connect
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” seeks to determine the relationship of human beings to one another across time and space. Whitman wonders what he means (not as a poet but as another anonymous individual) to the crowds of strangers he sees every day. In stanza 3 the speaker says‚ “I am with you‚ you men and women of a generation‚ or ever so many/ generations hence”. He assumes that they see the same things he does‚ and that they react in the same way‚ and that
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the heart of Walt Whitman’s celebrated poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” As Whitman’s speaker observes the ferry cross from Manhattan to Brooklyn‚ he reflects upon the crowds of men and women making the familiar passage and‚ more expansively‚ all people making similar passages – past‚ present‚ and future. He knows well what they experience and feel‚ for the same experiences and feelings make up his own life. In this shared journey‚ he finds a certain kinship and harmony. Ultimately‚ Whitman asserts that
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Whitman and Dickinson are very different in their poetry styles. Both authors break their writing into stanzas; blocks of lines similar to paragraphs in poetry. Dickinson is fond of quatrains or stanzas of four lines whereas Whitman ranges from 5 to 29 lines per stanza. Whitman (1856/2013)‚ uses imagery in a lengthy description on how he feels connected to the other passengers on the ferry in his poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. “It avails not‚ time nor place – distance avails not‚ I am with you
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An Analysis of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” By Austin Cooley ENGL 2027 – 007 In “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” the story follows the narrator’s experience with life as he takes a beautiful ferry ride. The man talks about the meaning of his life to other people. In this crowd he brings together all of the strangers and finds a connection. His journey through “space and time” is focused on the people. In the first sections‚ Whitman sets the scene by describing his
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1/29/11 Word count:298 “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” annotation “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” originally titled “Sun Down Poem” appeared first in Whitman’s work of Leaves of Grass in his second revised edition. By his last revision in 1881 the free verse poem was one of a kind during its era and gave rise to many criticisms due to its informal style. The poem on a literal level discusses the sights and sounds seen on an average venture with the “scallop edged waves in the twilight” (Whitman‚ 136) and the “crowds
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I chose Walt Whitman for my biography report because Mr. Farlow said that if I wasn’t going to take this class seriously and pick a real poet I might as well not come to class anymore. Walt Whitman was an awful child molester who was born in ancient Hong Kong. He is over 3‚000 years old and remembers the names of all the forgotten Gods. Walt Whitman is 90 stories tall‚ and his adventures are legendary. With his blue ox‚ Emily Dickenson‚ Walt Whitman traveled across young America and helped
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