Better Understanding of "Walt Whitman"

The Class discussed the poem of Walt Whitman on Monday , February 15,. I got a better understanding of the play after we went into small groups. I learn that the historical background of the time and of the author is very important in understanding the writing. Walt Whitman is writing about Abraham Lincoln 's death. I did not not whether the poem was about a lady and her man until those facts were revealed to me.

Walt Whitman is a man who used very formal words to this writing. The image that he writes into your mind is very different to me. The poem kept my interest from beginning to end. The writing forced me to figure out what all those facts in the poem was about. I would suppose then that is what good poetry is suppose to do. Walt Whitman has a strong vocabulary of words to present to his reading audience. The writing was not at all boring.

Walt Whitman talks with words to death. I must be able to be pulled into literature in order to understand and engage into it. I must be able to forget about the norm, and enter into the abnorm of reading poems and literature. He spoke all through the poem "O Death", he was personally connected with death in order to write the things around him to relate to death.

Writing about Abraham Lincoln had to have been a careful selection of words for Walt Whitman.
Here this man is a President of the United States. One of the most important men of the entire world. The selection of words had to be selective. I saw honor throughout the entire peom.
Honor for the gray-brown bird that would sing. Honor for the hermit in the swamp. Honor for the Lilac and the perfumed aroma.

I saw death all around the poem. The military gives the look forward of death. Walt Whitman helped us to see other men who have and would in the future face death. Face death and know death with honor. There was a great responsibility for this poem. There was a great responsibility for the Civil War. I admire a man like Walt Whitman whom could write about it with dignity.

I am sure that after visiting the cemetary this week that I will see more signs of honor there. I will read the history of men whom lie in those grave sites. My father also was a military man and he is buried in Bushnell cemetary here in Florida. I remember the day my family went to his burial. The army men all dressed in uniform. The men carrying the body of a former military man. We kids were all walking with them with dignity and honor at the passing of our father. Yes I can admire a writer like Walt Whitman!