Emily Dickinson

I read several of Emily Dickinson's poems since they were short. I found her poetry drepressing. Dickinson often wrote about issues of death, faith, and immorality, but with nature as part of the theme. In reading Poem #324 Some keep the Sabbath goin to Church... In this poem Dickinson wrote instead of going to church on Sunday, she stayed at home by herself enjoying nature alone.

Walt Whitman There Was a Child Went Forth

After reading, There Was a Child Went Forth, I think Whitman was writing about nature, then a school, his parents, the streets, the houses and the nature again. Because of that, I think that he is talking about how a child grew up which he compared to nature. First he was a baby all cool and calm. He is living in the country with nature ( flowers) all around him. The he grew up moves from the country to the city and started to going to school. He encounters many changes along the way. Disciplined for his actions by his parents, then he grew up and get his own house, then he retires and is cool and clam again with nature.

I also noticed in, There Was a Child Went Forth, there was a balance in his poem: mother/father, country/city, and childhood/adulthood.

Considering I am not a fan of poetry, this poem was pretty easy to understand.

Walt Whitman - Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry is a poem about a man taking the ferry home from Manhattan at the end of a working day to Brooklyn . Whitman begins Crossing Brooklyn Ferry about although people are very different, we all look at the same tides and currents of the water. He also writes about future generations seeing the same things that he and the current people on the ferry are seeing.

I enjoyed Crossing Brooklyn Ferry very much, since I just returned from New York. I could relate to the sights and sounds in the poem, since had just visted New York even thought the poem was written in the 1800's.