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I actually really enjoyed reading this poem. I like Walt Whitman's style of poetry. It is much different from all of the poems we have read by other poets. The reason why I like him so much is because he doesn't have these deep hidden meanings behind every line in the poems he writes. He just writes about the simple life in America and in his time. In this poem, he really paints a vivid picture of what every day life was like for everyday people in America in his time. I like that his poems are more of observations rather than non-fiction stories. This poem is a really good discription of how the average person in his time looked at america. It was a very new place still and many people were still coming over from foreign countries to live here. His poem really shows how people enjoyed their new life in this new and foreign land called America. All in all, I really liked this poem a lot. 1200260001