Crossing Brooklyn Ferry—Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman was a supporter of ethnic cleansing manifestations.
He was a part of the free soul movement, fighting against the expansion
of slavery.
American writers tried to show that they are against slavery.
Anti-abolitionist.
He is often called the father of free verse. There are no restrictions occur
in the poem, also there is no rhyme scheme.
His well-known work is Leaves of Grass 1855.
The main themes of Leaves of Grass are Democracy, nature, love and
Friendship.
By the time of Whitman, they started inventiveness with language,
through individual neologizing and provincial variant usages.
Summary and analysis
This poem is about the journey the poet had taken.
Through the poem, the poet invents a futuristic America.
Dualism – Mind and Matter, Good and Evil, land and water (dualism of
Universe)
Dualism helps to realize the truth.
The narrator addresses the-reader as two distinct individuals.
He tries the break the unbreakable code between the writer and the
reader.
