“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman is a poem about how different people from different backgrounds have one thing in common, being a hardworking American. In this poem, Whitman is using singing to metaphorically symbolize the sounds and the actions of laborers. It is a metaphorical tale in the sense that varied carols are being used to represent how America is made up of many individuals working together as one nation. The tone is an ecstatic display of everyday people working hard and doing their everyday jobs. The speaker gives us examples of people such as mechanics, carpenters, masons, boatmen, shoemakers, wood-cutters, mothers, wives, young girls and men. Every scenario the speaker paints, the people are happy and singing even when
