I Hear America Singing Response

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Text: "I Hear America Singing"

Walt Whitman uses imagery throughout "I Hear America Singing." Explain the imagery he uses. Then analyze the impact of his use of imagery on the overall meaning of the poem. Be sure to use specific details to support your answer.

In Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing”, he created a lot of imaginaries to praise American workers and industry. There are a lot of auditory imageries in the poem, and the imageries help the author to develop and visualize the scene that he wanted to show to us. “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, ” In the first lines, we see the subjects the mechanics, and the auditory imagery of what they sing. Their tone is “blithe and strong”, which supports the tough and hardworking images of the mechanics. Those imageries serve to improve the whole poem to be multi-dimension and give the exact depiction of kinds …show more content…

Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your ideas.

The Civil Disobedience mainly focus on if people need to support a government which does not reach their expectations and dose not work well, and how can people present their dissatisfaction through actions. Thoreau first outlines what a responsible government is and how it works, then applied to the current situation in America that the government did not obligates their responsibility and did not have the power or strategy to govern the nation well. It made the nation into chaos and cheats, but what confuses Thoreau is also people unwillingness to fight and revolute. Later in the article, he used his own example of not paying