Walt Whitman’s poem, “I Hear America Singing,” asserts that America is actually built on the dirty, laboring jobs that are frowned upon as opposed to the huge money making white collar jobs such as doctors or soldiers. Whitman backs this assertion with a well thought out list of laboring individuals that sing while they work. Walt’s purpose is to appreciate the laborers of America, in order to change people's opinions of the jobs. The bulk of the poem is written in anaphora. He begins the sentences with a recipe of “The + a profession” such as “The carpenter,” “The mason,” “The boatman” (lines 3-5). Every one of these sentences make us visualize each profession as an individual singing about their own thing, “The shoemaker singing as he sits
