Personally, my favorite Walt Whitman poem probably one of the shortest, simplest poems published in Leaves of Grass. My favorite Walt Whitman poem is called To You, and like I said it is very short and simple. Being short and simple are two of the main reasons I like this poem because it is straight to the point and that makes it a lot easier to understand. What I have found throughout these past few English classes is that a lot of Walt Whitman's poems are kind of hard to understand at first glance. They only start to become clear after we discuss them in class, but it was different with this poem. The first time I read through this poem I actually knew what he was talking about, which is a first for me. The fact that this poem is so short already puts it above longer poems in my mind, but on top of that it was so simple to understand. With most of the poems we have looked at as a class, I have a hard time analyzing them and figuring out what the author really means, but with this one there really is not much analyzing to do. It is exactly what it says, which is the main reason I like this poem. Another reason I like the length of this poem is that when we have to read long poems it is a lot harder to pay attention to it, but with this one its a lot easier to stay focused on what it is. A lot of Whitman's poems seem to only make sense after we discuss them in class, but with this one I feel like I know what it is about without having it explained to me. Just feeling like I know what a poem is about makes me like it because that does not happen very often. With a lot of Whtiman's poems there is some hidden meaning that you have to try and figure out, but this one is so much more simple than those.
http://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/24
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