English

Nigel Avila

Today, 00:44

Read Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing."

Unlike Hughes in "I. Too, Sing America", Whitman avoids

mentioning

race.

gender.

professions.

skills.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,

Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be

blithe and strong,

The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or

beam,

The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or

leaves off work,

The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the

deckhand

singing on the steamboat deck,

The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter

singing as he stands,

The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the

morning, or

at noon intermission or at sundown.

The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at

work, or of

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