Short Stories
1. Walt Whitman illustrates his transition from the Romantic attitude to the Realistic one in his poem "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun". As the poem begins, Whitman seems to be asking for an idealized or perfect natural, rural life. His "splendid silent sun" is not capable of causing destruction (Whitman 1). His "juicy autumnal fruit" is without spoil (2). His "fields" self tending, and the "serene-moving animals" require no care or maintenance. The wife and kids or the "rural domestic life" is "perfect" (8-9). These glories of "solitude" and "Nature" are his "primal sanities" (10-11). Conversely, anyone who has spent much time on a farm, been married, or had children, can without doubt see that this is an extreme romanticized view of life. Whitman begins to turn away from this romantic view of life in perfection to one more realistic in lines 12-19. He seeks "faces and streets" and "comrades and lovers by the thousand!" found in the new industrialized city (24-25). He requests to......
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