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Walt Whitman's I Hear America Singing

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I Hear America Singing In this poem, Walt Whitman is talking about all of the characteristics that America was founded upon. The people are taking joy in what they do. All the jobs listed are manual labor, they are the jobs that America was built upon. These workers are proud of the jobs they hold and are proud to be where they are n life, that’s why they are singing. Not everyone can sing at work. The jobs listed are blue-collard jobs, jobs that not a lot of people have a passion for, yet they are essential. All the people listed in this poem are hardworking people, none of these jobs are easy, they are all labor intensive. In the line (all singing what belongs to them) it can be speculated that the poet is speaking about how each job requires
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