Answer:
Niemöller's words in "First they came for..." illustrate the theme that silence is the greatest sin among all things, and this message is also conveyed in "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman.
In the poem "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman, he talks about the cruelty and oppression among humans. Whitman elaborates on certain images of oppression such as seeing "wives misused by her husband," and "the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny". Although Whitman scrutinizes the sins of human beings such as jealousy and arrogance, near the end of the poem he reveals that being silent and being an onlooker among the oppression that occurs is the greatest sin of all. In the lines "All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon, see, hear, and am silent" Whitman is saying that even though he sees all these things happening in the world, he simply watches instead of doing the right thing.
In the poem First they came for..." by Martin Niemöller talks about how Adolf Hitler along with the Nazis went after and killed innocent people during the Nazi rule.The theme of this poem is that silence is deadly, and the poem clearly illustrates that. In the lines "Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me" Niemöller is saying that because he did not speak out against the innocent killing of people such as Jews and Socialists, there was no one left to save him or speak out against him being killed. The same message of the theme is illustrated in the poem "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman because he explains that him being a bystander and silent among all the oppression he's seen and heard has led them to keep happening.
To conclude both of the poems convey the message to readers that standing by and not doing the right thing, hurts everyone and is the most cruel thing we can do.
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