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Comment 73 of 73, added on May 11th, 2008 at 12:54 PM.
Good site
from Turks and Caicos Islands
Comment 72 of 73, added on November 2nd, 2007 at 9:26 AM.
I am doing a Term Paper on Whitman and 2 poems by him! O Captain My
Captain and I Hear America Singing! They are such great poems! He is really
amazing with his works!!
Jordan from United States
Comment 71 of 73, added on May 31st, 2007 at 12:46 PM.
I would like to comment that i view this poem as a symbol of American
nationalism. It seems to me that Whitman is using singing as a symbol of
the sounds that working creates, turning the sounds of industry into music.
But at the same time he is portraying a happy world. It's obviusly about
the American Dream, but it is also about finding joy in your work. The main
issue i have with the poem is within the two sentences: "The boatman
singing what belongs to him in his boat - the deckhand singing on the
steamboat deck." Life was not so rosy being a worker in America. Sure it is
nice now after the workers got a lot more rights, but this was written
while Capitalism was in it's prime. Being a worker was not that nice, the
life of a worker was not far from what we would regard as hell. While
Whitman being the posetive American would write something like this, the
british writer Charles Dickens shows the negativity of the time. While the
age of enlightenment was supposed to bring great prosperity and joy to the
workers (read: The American Dream) working conditions did not really
improve that much. If you were born poor in Britain you died poor, the same
held true for America, except here you had a small chance at becoming rich.
Even though a chance is better then no chance the overly posetive poem
clearly showcases the ambivolence of the time. People did not just want to
think they were in a time where everyone was important, they wanted to
believe it. Personally i hate Nationalism. If you look at earlier societies
like Germany and Italy you can see what it leads to. Fascism follows
Nationalism and Fascism can be regarded as distilled Nationalism in my
opinion.
A nationalistic attitude is nothing to be proud of, it only leads to
racism. As a last note i would like to mention that even if the American
Dream offered a second chance to a lot of people, we don't even have to dig
deeper then the slaves to understand that not everyone had such a great
life.
Alexander from Norway
Comment 70 of 73, added on May 5th, 2007 at 5:28 PM.
No one mentioned Hughes' poem is an allusion to Whitman's. Does anyone
study allusion anymore?
sarah from United States
Comment 69 of 73, added on June 6th, 2006 at 3:38 PM.
the poem was great
nicole from Canada
Comment 68 of 73, added on June 6th, 2006 at 3:32 PM.
this poem was really cool it is one of the best poems i have read the poet
is really cool and the dude who wrot emooooooo is emoooooooooooooo
nicole from Canada
Comment 67 of 73, added on April 12th, 2006 at 2:26 PM.
that was a pretty good poem, i didnt like the rhyme scheme to it but i did
like the meaning that the whole world is singing and needs to be joyous for
what we do have, for some have nothing.
Danielle from United States
Comment 66 of 73, added on April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 PM.
luv it
ashley griffin from United States
Comment 65 of 73, added on April 11th, 2006 at 5:03 PM.
This poem is clearly about achieving the American dream. Everyone is
working from nothing to become something. They are singing in unison. They
are all happy about playing their part to build up america. In Langston's
hughes I, Too he includes himself and represents for the black community as
well. I believe that whitman wasn't trying to make racism an issue. He was
just commenting on the American dream.
Desiree from United States
Comment 64 of 73, added on April 6th, 2006 at 2:06 PM.
this poem by whitman is such an awesome poem i did a biography on this
amazing man and thereis so much more to him he is such an astonishing
writer and person
liz from United States
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