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    I sit and look out” by Walt Whitman echoes all miseries and atrocities of life that rose to the surface in the wake of capitalism. 19th century witnessed a sea change in the lives of people as rat race for materialistic possession became more prominent and principles were relegated‚ concerns and emotions were sidelined from inside of human beings. The poet pen pictures such a sad tale of human life by attempting to pose as onlooker who watches everything but does nothing to alter situations. In

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    Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission‚ having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem‚ I sit and look out. In this giant work‚ openness‚ freedom‚ and above all‚ individualism are all that concerned him. His aim was nothing less than to express some new poetical feelings and to initiate a poetic tradition in which difference should be recognized. Whitman is almost as blatant as this in his pacing of current experience because in the short poem “I Sit and Look Out

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    In the poem‚ Whitman describes various people suffering horrible misery in different forms. However‚ as he describes them‚ he doesn’t judge‚ get involved‚ make commentary‚ or pass some sort of overall moral or lesson to be learned.  This is what he means when he says he is "silent".  He simply opens a window for everyone to see what he sees‚ and lets the reader make their own interpretations and judgments.  For example‚ he describes the misery that exists‚ "the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited

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    If‚ ‘I Hear America Singing’ depicts a brighter and more up-beat society; ‘I Sit and Look Out’ describes a dark‚ sad‚ corrupted‚ sorrowful world. Walt Whitman uses sad words describing emotion and just all sorts of corruption imaginable. In this sense the entire poem is a poignant criticism of life‚ with the speaker acting as a detached observer‚ finally leaving it upon the reader to react and judge against the malady of life that the poet shows within the framework of just ten lines. To begin

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    I SIT AND LOOK OUT Walt Whitman‚ a prominent American anti war poet‚ who lived during the times of civil war witnessed the condition around him with his own eyes and transformed it into literature which still stands relevant to our lives today. The advent of capitalism during this time and its rapid proliferation brought with itself several ramifications. Human concerns were relegated and principles were sidelined. In response to all the atrocities‚ the people looked around and turned a blind

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    I Sit and Look Out’ describes a dark‚ sad‚ corrupted‚ sorrowful world and shows the realism of the world. It talks about a man who sees evil in the world but does nothing to stop it or extinguish it. He leaves all of the misery and bitterness alone and acts as though he does not witness it. Whitman argues that no one stands up to the injustices of the world‚ to make things right. He is urging us‚ not just to see and hear the meanness and the agony of people suffering in the world‚ but to correct

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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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    Old Walt Old Walt Whitman Went finding and seeking‚ Finding less than sought Seeking more than found‚ Every detail minding Of the seeking or the finding. Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding‚ Each detail minding‚ Old Walt went seeking And finding. Langston Hughes‚ 1954 from A Supermarket in California Where are we going Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel

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    Very few people will contest that Walt Whitman may be one of the most important and influential writers in American literary history and conceivably the single most influential poet. However many have claimed that Whitman’s writing is so free form as evident in his 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself that it has no style. The poetic structures he uses are unconventional but reflect his very democratic ideals towards America. Although Whitman’s writing does not include a structure that

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    Rainey Pre-AP English 11 9 April 2013 Heroes Among Us Walt Whitman had a knack for emitting heroic qualities‚ like those of soldiers‚ into average people. Whitman was a volunteer nurse in the Civil War and vividly relives his experiences from the hospital tents through his poetry and his characters. While a nurse‚ Whitman was advised by other‚ more experienced nurses to not build personal relationships with the patients. Walt Whitman did not heed these warnings and collected information from

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