I Hear America Singing Themes

Work: like it or not, it's a fact of modern life. For most of us, work is something we do to pay the bills, but our pal Walt Whitman saw work as a very way of life. In "I Hear America Singing," he...

If there were a "Mr. Nineteenth-Century America" contest, Walt Whitman would win it for sure. He loved our fair land and spilled a whole lot of ink describing and celebrating America and its inhabi...

The theme of singing is introduced in the title (and, for that matter, in the very first line) of the poem. The speaker announces "I Hear America Singing!" Okay, so you've got us: Whitman doesn't u...