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Essay Archive - Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: One and the Same
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: One and the Same
Walt Whitman asks himself and the reader of the poem, "Crossing
Brooklyn Ferry," what significance a person's life holds in the scope of
densely populated planet. The poem explores the difficulties of
discovering the relevance of life. The methods that helped Whitman grasp
his own idea of the importance of life are defined with some simple yet
insightful and convincing observations. By living under and for the
standards of others, a person can never live a fulfilling life.
Distinguishing oneself from the mobs of society can be next to impossible
when every other ....
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