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Excelsior By Walt Whitman

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The poem that I chose to interpret was “Excelsior”.This poem was written by Walt Whitman, he was an american poet and journalist who lives in the nineteenth century. One of the things that I believe greatly influenced this poem is the state of being that Walt Whitman described as “the merge”. Walt Whitman characterized ‘the merge’ as the state in which an individual overcomes the psychological, moral, and political boundaries that defined a person’s life.
Walt Whitman displayed many poetic techniques throughout “Excelsior”. The most notable technique that Walt Whitman employed was repetition, every segment of the poem started with the word “And who”. “Excelsior” is a free verse poem and has no rhyme scheme. Walt Whitman uses alliteration
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