Whitman uses the technique of onomatopoeia to create a melodic effect reminiscent of the sound of a. Published just seven years after the union of the central pacific and the union pacific railroad at promontory summit utah territory whitmans poem to a locomotive in winter considers the dynamic relationship between the railroad and nature.
The locomotive is hailed as the object of the poets declamatory song.
To a locomotive in winter summary.
No sweetness debonair of.
In his first line of to a locomotive in winter walt whitman indicates why he created this poem.
There is in to a locomotive in winter no story of a sexual encounter only a description of the wonders of the adored male figure.
To a locomotive in winter.
A recitative is a passage rendered in style.
Thee for my recitative thee in the driving storm even as now the snow the winter day declining thee in thy panoply thy measurd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive thy black cylindric body golden brass and silvery steel thy ponderous side bars parallel and connecting rods gyrating shuttling at thy sides thy metrical now swelling pant and roar now tapering in the distance thy great protruding head light fixd in front.
Thee for my recitative its black cylindric body with the head light fixd in front contains its fierce throated beauty it is presented as the epitome of the modern.
It is a recitative for a locomotive in winter.
Greater still is the hope and promise of the individual who.
To a locomotive in winter.
Walt whitman 1819 1892.
There is no question of its gender.
In to a locomotive in winter whitman celebrates a machine that he knows will help make america fulfill that promise of what is to come.
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