Literary Features:
-Repetition: in many of the beginning of the lines, the
first few words are repeated.
EX. “Have you reckon’d a thousand
acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much?” (30).
-Imagery: in the poem, Whitman uses the five senses a lot,
providing a lot of imagery
EX. “The
sniff of the green leaves…/The sound of the belch’d words…” (24-25).
-Metaphors: at around line 100, Whitman starts to compare
grass to many different things.
EX. “…the
grass is itself a child…/Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic” (105-106).
Rhyme/Rhythm
-There is no rhyme scheme
-There is no specific rhythm
Structure
-Whitman seems to group together lines that are all about a
certain topic
EX. When he
is talking about the grass, it is al grouped together
-Very long and lengthy
Tone/Mood
-The tone is motivation—he is motivating people to believe
in themselves, and be okay with who they are
-The mood is encouraging—the audience feels encouraged to
not listen to what society thinks of them, but to believe in who they think
they are.
Song of Myself
ReplyDeleteRhyme/Rhythm: There is not any specific rhyme scheme to this poem although it does have rhythm due to the repetition of many words like myself, belonging or belongs, loafe, reckoned, perfume and plenty of others. There is also a lot of repetition of sounds and the amounts of syllables. For example; “echoes, ripples, buzz’d whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine..” This line does not have any definite structure, but it has rhythm and flow.
Tone/mood: Whitman’s mood shifts throughout the poem. I noticed that he has two main tones; the first is him expressing happiness and life and the second being death and sadness. The first is shown in lines when he refers to the things that bring him joy in small ways like perfume, the sun and love. The death is shown towards the end as he begins to refer to darkness, and starts to accept that death is coming. The beginning of the poem shows a lot of strength and power and the will to live a happy life, and the end shows that Whitman is beginning to lose his glow and urge to live.