Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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Recurring Images and Motifs in ""
In the poem "", by Walt Whitman,
there are many recurring images and motifs that can be seen.
Whitman develops these images throughout the course of the
poem. The most dominant of these are the linear notion of
time, playing roles, and nature ....
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.... the same time. He is sure that after he is gone the water
will still run and people will still "see the shipping of
Manhattan/and the heights of Brooklyn" (14-15). He makes his past
and our futher all one.
No matter the time nor the distance, the reader will
experience the same way he experiences at the moment in time
he resides:
Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky,
so I fe ....
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