Wavy J (jalyn) x Lang Lit

"These and all else were to me the same as they are to you,/ I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river,/ The men and women I saw were all near to me,/ Others the same- others who look back on me because I look'd forward to them,/ (The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night" ). I have a pretty hard time trying to  analyze poetry. It means sooooooo many things and at times I am pretty unsure of myself how to grasp a meaning but this is what I got from it: The meaning of life (nature, areas around us) have the same meaning to me as they do to anyone else. There are certain things in life that we can all appreciate but how much we appreciate them makes all the difference. Its okay to look back and reminisce on your past but never look to long where you neglect the sight of your future. Our future (graduating) is start to become our present and pretty soon will become our today. Time is inevitable and unfortu...

  My title reference joke : ) First thing noticeable about  his journal that it is written in cursive. During that time cursive was much more valued than it is now (not sure why).  The writing "two platforms" had a very symbolic meaning. This almost represents the people that were pro-slavery and were against it but describing them as "platforms". The word platform could mean that a person is standing on an object above the rest of the objects in the room. Or that the platform is the way a person reveals their stance on certain subjects (not sure where I was going with this one). "I shall see the crash" could mean a lot. It could mean the crash of the flawed government system. The crash could represent how opposing view points on slavery or other relevant topics during this time fight so much over what they believe that it causes violence.  "And you" is symbolic in a way that Whitman spends a lot of time creating poems that are open ended o...