Music is an important activity in most people’s lives, so why not write about it? There are many themes prevalent throughout all of Walt Whitman’s poetry. Nature is a large theme, as is unity, music, and the soul. Walt Whitman even tries to connect all of these themes together at some point or another. Whitman’s unique ideology of unification allows his easy access to unify people, topics, and ideas. “Proud Music of the Storm” is a good example of Whitman’s works. In this poem, there are examples of unity, nature, the soul, and more. There are many similar themes throughout Whitman’s works and personal life. One theme that is extremely important to Whitman personally is nature. Nature has always had a place in Whitman’s life and poetry.
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In stanza 5 of Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Whitman states” What is it, then, between us? What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us? Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not.” Here Whitman is stating that nothing can come between the unity of people. Time can not, location, and homes will not even come between the unification of society. “Proud Music of the Storm” takes a different approach to unity, but it’s still very present. In this poem, Whitman connects all kinds of music to nature, his soul, and back to other genres of music. Stanza 4 of “Proud Music of the Storm:” is a good example: “Now airs antique and medieval fill me! I see and hear old harpers with their harps, at Welsh festivals: I hear the minnesingers, singing their lays of love,I hear the minstrels, gleemen, troubadours, of the feudal ages” (-). Whitman, in this poem, still talks about unity in the same way, with different examples. Whitman still unites himself to all manners of people, he just does it through …show more content…
In (Restless Exploration) Author states:”Among the most compelling spiritual efforts in Whitman’s poetry are his paradoxical attempts to obliterate temporal, spatial, and personal confines by focusing intently on the present moment and to forge a communal oneness among all people across time by addressing the reader as a specific “you,” a private auditor.” Whitman allows himself to speak intimately to his reader on a singular basis. He does this for one very important reason. Throughout “Proud Music of the Storm.” To his other poems, Whitman aims to guide, he’s guiding us first through all the different kinds of music in “Proud Music of the storm.” Afterward, Whitman guides us through other locations, he guides his readers into the community in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and guides them through coming of age and death in more
In stanza 5 of Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Whitman states” What is it, then, between us? What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us? Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not.” Here Whitman is stating that nothing can come between the unity of people. Time can not, location, and homes will not even come between the unification of society. “Proud Music of the Storm” takes a different approach to unity, but it’s still very present. In this poem, Whitman connects all kinds of music to nature, his soul, and back to other genres of music. Stanza 4 of “Proud Music of the Storm:” is a good example: “Now airs antique and medieval fill me! I see and hear old harpers with their harps, at Welsh festivals: I hear the minnesingers, singing their lays of love,I hear the minstrels, gleemen, troubadours, of the feudal ages” (-). Whitman, in this poem, still talks about unity in the same way, with different examples. Whitman still unites himself to all manners of people, he just does it through …show more content…
In (Restless Exploration) Author states:”Among the most compelling spiritual efforts in Whitman’s poetry are his paradoxical attempts to obliterate temporal, spatial, and personal confines by focusing intently on the present moment and to forge a communal oneness among all people across time by addressing the reader as a specific “you,” a private auditor.” Whitman allows himself to speak intimately to his reader on a singular basis. He does this for one very important reason. Throughout “Proud Music of the Storm.” To his other poems, Whitman aims to guide, he’s guiding us first through all the different kinds of music in “Proud Music of the storm.” Afterward, Whitman guides us through other locations, he guides his readers into the community in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and guides them through coming of age and death in more