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Walt Whitman's I Hear America Singing

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1 Walt Whitman is one of America’s foremost authors. As a man of letters, his works span severalliterary forms. Modernity remembers him most for his poetry. This essay will analyse one of hispoems, I Hear America Singing. The poem is written in 1860; a time when America was considered a fledgling nation by herbrothers and sisters in Europe. The international scene was characterized by the expansion ofWestern powers into other parts of the world, with the establishment of colonies and empiresoverseas. America was more concerned with her domestic affairs. Regardless, she too wasengaged in expansion under the aegis of Manifest Destiny. One of the engines of this expansionswas American industry, which takes center stage in this poem.Whitman’s
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