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A 3 pages essay that summarizes and analyzes "On the Beach at Night" by Walt Whitman. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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This poem follows Whitmans poetic style of free verse. In so doing, "On the Beach at Night" illustrates how, in overcoming the restrictions imposed on poetry by rhyme and meter,
Whitman succeeded in creating a poetic form that demonstrated those same virtues that he believed to be part of both nature and democracy, that is, freedom and infinite variety (Valiunas).
The poem begins by picturing a child standing with her father on the beach at night, "Watching the east, the autumn sky" (Whitman line 3). The second stanza uses evocative
metaphor in order to describe the "lord-star Jupiter" as ascending through clouds, which are described in manner that casts them as adversaries to both Jupiter and the "delicate sister the
Pleiades" (Whitman line 10). The sight of the darkly ominous clouds, which Whitman describes as "ravening clouds, burial clouds, in black masses spreading" (line 5), obscuring the view of
Jupiter and the Pleiades upsets the little girls and the third stanza consists of the fathers reassuring words to his little girl. He tells her that the victory of the
clouds is only an illusion and to keep watching, as Jupiter will soon reappear, as will the Pleiades, because these cosmic bodies are "immortal" (Whitman line 20). The third
stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman 28), which will endure "longer even than lustrous Jupiter" or
the Pleiades (Whitman 30). It is typical of Whitmans vision of poetry that he consistently focuses on those qualities in the environment that portray the "nature of human and environmental
miracles" (Blake 613). In other words, this poem illustrates Whitmans perspective that everything in nature is connected and intertwined and it is this connection that constitutes the Divine, that is,
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