Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is a celebrated poem by Walt Whitman that meditates on time, shared human experience, and the connection between past and future generations through the everyday act of crossing the East River.

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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poem
addresses future generations
future readers
author Walt Whitman
centralSymbol East River crossing
ferry
collection Leaves of Grass
containsMotif crowds
journey
light and shadow
water
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstPublishedIn Leaves of Grass
form long poem
genre free verse
lyric poetry
hasSubject New York City
everyday life
human connection
language English
literaryMovement American Romanticism
Transcendentalism
literaryTechnique anaphora
cataloguing
direct address
imagery
repetition
meter free verse
narrativePerspective first person
narrator ferry passenger
originalPublicationLanguage English
partOf Whitman canon
period 19th century American literature
poet Walt Whitman
publicationType book poem
relatedWorkByAuthor Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Song of Myself
setting Brooklyn
East River
Manhattan
New York Harbor estuarine system
surface form: New York Harbor
structure sectioned poem
theme connection between generations
continuity of past present and future
democracy
shared human experience
spiritual unity
time
urban life

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Leaves of Grass notablePoem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Walt Whitman wrote Crossing Brooklyn Ferry