poem paper

Walter Whitman Junior ate four raw eggs for breakfast every day for the last twenty years of his life. Also, after his death, an autopsy was done showing that his lungs had shrunk to one eighth of their normal breathing capacity. More importantly he was not just a, but the noteworthy father of w on the beach looking at the fall sky at sunset. The dark cloudy sky is coming in from the west, and the child thinks that the stars are gone for good. The father explains that they are immortal and will soon return, but in the last stanza the father suggests that there is a deity more immortal than the stars, but does not say what. In “On the Beach at Night” Whitman expresses the unexplainable connection between man and nature and how it raises a sense of wonder.

Whitman paints a picture encompassing the mystical natural world and the always curious human being through the use of alliteration, onomatopoeia, diction, repetition of words, and imagery. The author breaks up his poem by writing short stanzas, followed by longer stanzas. In the first two shorter stanzas, (three lines) he has the third word in the first line rhyme with the third word in the third line. For example, line one reads “On the beach at night” and the third line reads “Watching the east, the autumn sky” (1,3). Beach and east have the same vowel sound making them assonance . He writes a similar assonance using the words “beach” and “weep” in the same format in lines eleven through thirteen. The use of assonances emphasizes the feelings that the words himself portray. In the longer two stanzas he uses two onomatopoeias that continue the feeling being described in the poem. Lines fourteen and fifteen contain “weep” suggesting someone is crying, but also gives the reader ...

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...ure. Lastly, Whitman uses the imagery of the Pleiades “swimming in the night sky.” The Pleiades are the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas as well as a constellation of stars in the sky. Whitman writes about them as both the daughters and the stars drawing a connection between human and nature.

The concluding lines of the poem contain the majority of the mystery that whitman implies. These lines are where the writer proposes the question of a deity more immortal than the stars and the moon itself. Basically by bringing in the mythological tie it changes up the usual view on the human nature bond. By adding in the twist of something even more immoral out there it creates a new view on the topic. Likewise by writing about the mythological creatures and their stars along with the humans watching them. It definitely changes up the usual view on the human- nature bond.