I Hear America Singing Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory

This poem is all about singing. Everyone is singing—the deckhands, the washer women, the hatters, and the carpenters. Reading this poem is practically like being at a Broadway play, except instea...

Walt Whitman loved a good list, and "I Hear America Singing" is a great example of the poet's lust for the list. Most of the lines of the poem begin with a type of laborer—"the carpenter," "the s...