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Will you seek afar off-? you surely come back at last, In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest, Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour, Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor-woman in mother, sister, wife, The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere, You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life, And all else giving place to men and women like you. When the psalm sings instead of the singer,

When the script preaches instead of the preacher, When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk, When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again, When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince, When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter, When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions, I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.

This section of the poem is souly based upon the role of the men and women throughout America. The poem, A Song For Occupations is about the different proffessions men and women participate in. Throughout the 5 sections before this final one, Walt Whitman gives a description of a different variety of jobs categorized into different types of genres. However, in this section he does not describe a particular occupation such as a lawyer, architecture, etc. He gives vivid detail about the job we, as men and women have to do in our country, America. 1200530350

I think this specific section of Walt Whitman's poem Song for Occupations is talking about the workers of America, regardless of gender or occupation, who have jobs to do and he mentions the work getting done by itself without them. I think that this part is partly sarcastic because Walt Whitman regards workers so highly that he knows the jobs can not be completed without the worker. He says that the day the jobs do themselves he will make as much of them as he does of the workers. So perhaps with this part Walt means to say he respects the workers more than the work. 1200540996

The way that Walt Whitman describes this section lets me know that he can add a bit of experienced writing into a poem that was made out of nothing. He is an expert at writing and shows that his poems are filled with creative literature that can expand people’s minds as it did to mine. He is a very descriptive writer who likes to confuse people with his change of words and maybe by adding things out of the blue. He is writing his experience of looking around and watching what other people do and he took the time to write to us what he things are some very important jobs that may seem normal to us. He also shows passion in his work because he can sometimes exaggerates in his use of words and can sometimes make a normal job seem much needed for society. I like the way that he can create an image of the things that he writes in my head by using very descriptive words and by giving many explanations of why things are the way they are. He very much respects others peoples jobs and he does a very good job by letting us know that. I think that one part of this poem is very weird which the line that says is."When i can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again." Some people may think that this is weird but the way i see it he is refering to the way that the books give him knowledge when he takes the time to read them and understand their true meaning. 1200619825hre -