!WALT WHITMAN!

The section of writing that I chose to blog about was section 16 of his poem Song of Myself

The first thing in the section of writing that I noticed was the opposites he used to describe himself. He said the young and the old, the foolish and the wise, the child and the man, the man and the women. He uses opposites because it helps be the great equalizer. By saying he is all of these things it makes him relate able to nearly all people because he covers all the bases with the opposites. And by doing that everyone likes him because he is saying he is similar to nearly every human and people like to listen to other people who relate to them. He goes on and on not only with opposites, but with all sorts of different kinds of jobs and religions just to make him even more relate able to all of his readers. He also says that he is relate able to all of the people in america that he is at home all over the country, so he is making himself similar to everybody in at least one way. And by doing that he is making people unify over him and come together because everyone will have something in common with him and he will be the connecting link between the opposite people. The next thing in these passage I noticed was how lovely the diction and syntax was. When you read it, it just flows through your lips so smoothly and it just sounds very nice. He uses alliteration alot at the end of the section with the sound, with the suns I can see and the suns I cannot see. and the in the two last stanzas how he says place so many times, it really gets sunk into your head that that is one of the points he is trying to get across to you. The last thing that I really noticed was the parallel structure that he used in these section but also all throughout the only essay. It is a good technic to use because it makes everything in a list he is making more and more powerful, I can almost feel the writing getting louder and louder and more passionaite until it just peaks and then he changes the structure and starts with something new. It makes what he is trying to say so much more powerful.