In Walt Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” we are connected to the author or rather the narrator in a way different than many other works we come across. Whitman uses second-person narration, in which the narrator talks directly to the person reading the story. The first line, “Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!”, introduces us, expeditiously, to second person narrative. This narrative is described simply as “a narrative mode in which the protagonist or other main character is referred to by second-person personal pronouns”. Although “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is a poem, there are other types of works that use second-person narrative. An example of this is Theodore Roosevelt’s speech to the Society of the Holy Name, titled “Strength
