Hear America Singing by Walt Essay

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Equality was coming about at the time of this poem, but America still had a long ways to go, yet Whitman seemed to be able to see how people could be equal and happy in their own ways.

In all of this equality that Whitman was describing, one can see how men and women were still not on equal ground at the time of the poem. Whitman relates men to their job and work, yet the women seem to only be related to the men and are only very briefly mentioned near the end of the poem. Women are doing household chores, rather than labor, which they will be paid in money for. Their payment is instead the satisfaction of their accomplishments at home and what they can do for their home life.

It's also interesting that the men are the only people having a good time near the end of the day. The way Whitman describes the men makes the reader think of a group of young men sitting in a bar, telling stories and singing jolly songs over a mug of brew.

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The women are not included in this portion, but perhaps an inclusion of a man and a woman ending their night together happily after a long day of labor would have been a more complete concept for what Whitman was trying to say.

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Hampson, Thomas, and Carla Maria Verdino Sullwold. IHAS Essay: I Hear America Singing. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/essay.html.....

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