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In my opinion, the central concern of the poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is the connection that unites people across time and space through shared experiences. In the poem, Whitman notes that common feelings, landscapes, and lifestyles link people from the past, present, and future. I arrived at this idea because, throughout the poem, Whitman repeatedly […]
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The main idea of this poem is how people from different times are connected to each other by their everyday lifestyle, emotions, feelings they experience and observations they make. Whitman shows the everyday lifestyle of people in New York and suggests that people in the future will live similar lives and feel the same emotions. […]
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I think the main issue of the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry is human connection across generations. People’s emotions, experience and being alive are the same for the ones that are far apart by centuries. I have this thought because I saw Whitman W. during the whole porridge talking directly to the future readers and the […]
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I believe the central concern of this poem is the beauty in daily life and human connection. All people have a routine and a life of their own; everyone connects with the beauty of what is being seen and felt. Whitman speaks about the feeling of looking at the sun and the river. Looking at […]
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In my view, the central concern of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry is that life becomes meaningful when we genuinely appreciate the tiny things that nature gives us and lives in the moment of it. As I read the poem, I noticed how Whitman describes beautifully to natural ordinary scenes such as summer sky, river, waves, hills, […]
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The central concern of this poem is that it is a metaphor for human connectivity and the journey of life. At first, it seemed as if he was simply writing about his ferry ride, but further on, it became apparent that he was comparing his experience to people of the present and future who take […]
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The central concern of the poem is how everyday life in the city is meaningful. I reached this idea because Whitman focuses on simple things like the river, the ferry, and people going home, and shows that these moments matter. That means that people from different times in the line of life will experience the […]
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry main idea is that people are connected to each other no matter where they live. Even though Whitman is writing about a ferry ride in the 1800s, he is really talking about something much bigger and how humans share the same feelings, struggles, and moments across time. As he looks at the […]
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When I first read Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, I assumed Whitman was just describing the ferry ride along with the city around him. But that wasn’t the case. After reading it again, I finally realized the poem revolves around people being connected in some way, through experiences even if they’re from another time. He voices to […]
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