Walt Whitman Biography

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of the characters themselves reflect the piece’s definite goals. Though these “characters” set the scene and take center stage at different points, it must be remembered that what occurs is removed from the reader by two filters. The first is the filter of interpretation by the boy who is witnessing the events, it is then filtered through the memory of the boy become both man and poet. The boy has thus created a profound story of want and injustice through translation of natural occurrence (sounds and sea), and the man-poet has created a path though which all could trace the progression of these messages into the poet’s insight. Due to this fact, the central character in this piece is the boy, foreshadowing what he is to become. Attention is not focused on the birds and sea themselves, but on the boy-man’s growing understanding brought on by them. They are then factors in the equation of nature and speaker.
The seemingly autobiographical nature of this piece instantly calls for ...

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From such as now they start the scene revisiting,”

His words come by list in force. He speaks of the emotions distilled in him by the bird’s song and the environmental setting of his piece. He then makes mention of all the words forced upon him upon his epiphany. The word “stronger and more delicious than any” is the word death. This is found in line 168, but eluded to in the introduction.
On the shore near the childhood home of Whitman, the scene is set in May when he as a boy, finds a nest of birds, male and female and their eggs. In his observations he translates the actions of the birds through personification. The birds’ thoughts are his own interpretation. He witnesses what he ...

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