Charles Whitman

Gary Snyder’s “Axe Handles,” is a short poem, it gives a description of a small domestic story in which it extends into a meditation on parenting, a transmission of cultural knowledge, and the actual importance of old fashion wisdom to ordinary, everyday life. Mediate parenting was the actual intention that author, Gary Snyder, tend to accomplish. The poet (who speaks the poem), tells about teaching his son Kai, on an April afternoon, how to throw a hatchet so deftly that it will lodge into a…

belongs to you, I love and invite my soul,” (Line 1). This a quote from the poem, “Son of Myself” by Walt Whitman. What this quote from the poem is saying is that he celebrates himself and that everything that is good about him is also good to the reader in their self. He is saying that they should celebrate their self as well. He also talks about he is inviting and one with his soul. Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist and Journalist. He was born on May 31, 1819 and died March 26, 1892.…

A Noiseless Spider Central Idea In Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Spider” the central idea is that an isolated soul, facing the vast unknown will instinctively explore and reach out, in attempts to find a connection that would allow them to further understand their place in life. The human soul, when alone in uncharted territories will strive to explore, similar to how the spider “stood isolated” and is left to “explore the vacant vast surrounding.” The spider, all alone in the tremendous unknown…

Walt Whitman was one of early America’s most influential poets. His poetry themes and style of writing were influenced by his surroundings- democracy, nature, love and death. Whitman cataloged the growth, beauty and growing pains of a young America right up until his death on March 26th, 1892. He believed that America was unique from its predecessor, and tradition was not to something to be followed, but rather life in America was to be embraced as a unique opportunity. Whitman’s writing style,…

A Native American saying is, “The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” Both Puritans and Native Americans would have found this to be true after we examine their literary pieces. The first form of literature we see in America was Native American myths. These were origin myths about nature used to elaborate on the beginning of a part of creation. Then there was a shift between Native American myths to Puritan literature. Puritans used mostly poetry to…

America wasn’t a country that just “happened”, but rather people worked hard in it to build it into what America is today. In his poem “I hear America singing”, Walt Whitman writes about all the sounds he hears of different blue collar jobs being accomplished. Whether it be a carpenter measuring planks or a wife doing chores at home (Whitman), everyone was putting in work and contributing to the society. Virtually everyone then was contributing, including African Americans. Langston Hughes…

Reflection Essay 5 A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman begins with a single spider brainstorming how it will build a web. To build this magnificent web, the spider must start off with a single strand of filament connecting two walls. While the speaker of the poem is watching, he gives it a human like characteristic by calling it patient. The tone of the poem is very lonely, he describes a spider all by itself trying to start off his web. “I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood…

Walt Whitman is considered one of America's most influential poets. Many of his works celebrated democracy, nature, and love. Whitman’s work aimed to mirror the potential freedoms to be found in America through traditional epics. His love for America and its democracy can be attributed to his upbringing and his parents. During this time, the topic of change was uppermost in Whitman’s mind as the America of the 1850s drifted inexorably towards civil war. The America Walt Whitman lived in was…

The poet, Walt Whitman, the creator of “ Song Of Myself” from the book Leaves Of Grass, depicts the meaning of our life and our purpose of the universe as a beautiful life cycle of death and rebirth anew. Whitman conveys that “for for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,/… every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air.”.,Whitman believes that the individual makes us unique in our own way while sharing common ground with others. This conveys that in Whitman’s poem we…

The poem “America” by Walt Whitman has a respectful tone. Whitman appeared to have great respect for American Society. There are some words throughout his poem that contribute to the respectful tone. The first word that contributes to the tone is equal. Whitman observed that there were “equal daughters, equal sons.” Equality appeared to be important to Whitman, so the fact that America provided the opportunity for everyone to be equal was something that Whitman showed his respect in the tone of…