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People in the united states, which is the greatest poem.

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The speaker is 37 years old and in perfect health.

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The hawk complains about the speaker’s gab and loitering.

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Hardworking, boisterous, loud.

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The things that connect things are their similarities. These similarities as described by Whitman are the spheres of the universe’s objects, distances of time and space, souls, elements, food, animals, history of civilization, identities, life and death.

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The speaker describes the nation as the center of equality.

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“I hear america singing” describes various jobs and the sounds made at those jobs. It uses these laborious, “blue collar” jobs to outline the American dream, or Whitman’s American dream. A land of opportunity, hard workers, and happy workers.