Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking is a lyric poem by Walt Whitman that meditates on memory, loss, and the awakening of the poetic self through a boy’s encounter with a mourning bird by the sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking canonical | 9 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lyric poem
ⓘ
poem ⓘ |
| author | Walt Whitman ⓘ |
| centralEvent | boy’s encounter with a mourning bird ⓘ |
| centralImage | mourning bird ⓘ |
| collection | Leaves of Grass ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReputation | major lyric of Leaves of Grass ⓘ |
| editionInLeavesOfGrass | 1860 edition ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1859 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Atlantic Monthly ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre |
elegy
ⓘ
lyric ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | modern American poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterTitle | Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking self-link ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American Romanticism
ⓘ
Transcendentalism ⓘ
surface form:
Transcendentalism (influenced)
|
| meter | irregular ⓘ |
| motif |
birdsong
ⓘ
sea ⓘ translation of nature’s voice ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| narrator | adult poet recalling childhood ⓘ |
| originalTitle | A Child’s Reminiscence ⓘ |
| partOf | Whitman’s sea-drift poems ⓘ |
| protagonist | a boy by the sea ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Song of Myself
ⓘ
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ |
| setting |
Long Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Long Island shore
seashore ⓘ |
| structure | alternation of narrator and bird’s song ⓘ |
| stylisticFeature |
cataloguing
ⓘ
musical phrasing ⓘ parallelism ⓘ repetition ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
boy’s initiation into awareness of death
ⓘ
origin of the poet’s voice ⓘ |
| symbol |
bird as poet
ⓘ
cradle as sea ⓘ sea as origin of life and song ⓘ |
| theme |
awakening of the poetic self
ⓘ
childhood and maturity ⓘ death ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ nature as teacher ⓘ |
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.