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.