Question

The French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that Americans are "always considering themselves as standing alone" that their whole destiny is in their own hands to what extent do you think Walt Whitman's writing illustrates that idea?

Answer 1

Answer:

In “I Hear America Singing” it is showing individualism and originality by them all singing their own song that is song which belongs to them.

In section 52 of “Song Of Myself” he says “I too am not a bit tamed”. “On The Beach At Night Alone."

Explanation:

" I Hear America Singing" is typically a joyful list of people working away. The speaker of the poem announces that he hears "America singing," and then made a description the people who make up America. These include the mechanics, the carpenters, the shoemakers, the mothers, as well as the seamstresses. He declares that each worker sings "what belongs to him or her," also that they all sing loud and strong as they work. And as the poem ends, we learn that they like to sing at their parties, too. America: full of American Idol wannabes.

The poem comprises of a stanza, which is made up of eleven lines. Whitman writes in his characteristic free verse. The structure is simple in a way that it follows the simple list format that Whitman commonly employs in his poetry. One after the other, he states the different members of the American working class and describes the way they sing as they perform their tasks respectively.

This poem exemplifies the theme of musicality in Whitman's poetry. Whitman uses music to lay emphasis on the connection to human experience. Although, each worker sings his or her individual song, the act of singing is universal, and as a way, all of the workers unite under one common American identity.