Read the lines from Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America
Singing."
A similarity between Whitman's descriptions of people in the
excerpt and the descriptions of the speaker in "l. Too. Sing
America" is that both are
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at
work, or of
the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day-at night the party of young
fellows,
robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
ordinary.
O hardworking.
ashamed.
beautiful.