Walt Whitman Chase Kemp

PATROLING BARNEGAT by: Walt Whitman WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running, Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering, Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there milk-white combs careering, On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting, Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting, Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing, (That in the distance! is that a wreck? is the red signal flaring?)   Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering, A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting, That savage trinity warily watching.

Analysis of Patrolling Barnegat This poem is about nature at its worst during a storm. It is a 14 lined sonnet with a AA rhyme scheme. The Poem is Free Verse with no measurable beat or rhyme. The theme of the poem is how merciless and wild nature can become.

Bio Walt Whitman was born May 31, 1819, and died March 26, 1892 Walt Worked many jobs including being a teacher, journalist, and government clerk. During his free time Whitman concentrated primarily on writing poems and stories.

Critic’s views "On the surface, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson would seem to be almost exaggeratedly male and female in their personal and poetic self-presentations, as if each had set out to prove, through parodying the stereotypical sex roles of nineteenth-centurys America, that there were two different, distinctively male and female poetic traditions.“ –Sandra M. Gilbert, http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=whi-60 James Dougherty thinks that he was a very influential person in politics and that he helped shaped the way people viewed certain issues.- http://www.enotes.com/walt-whitman-criticism/whitman-walt V. K. Chari said that one of the most important aspects of Whitman's poetry was the emphasis on self existence and the relationship with his poems and the meaning of life and death. - http://www.enotes.com/walt-whitman-criticism/whitman-walt

Bibliography http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/126 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman http://www.helium.com/items/243530-poetry-analysis-patrolling-barnegat-by-walt-whitman http://www.enotes.com/walt-whitman-criticism/whitman-walt http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=whi-60