Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” is a poem about memory—about the ways in which an adult poet remembers and understands his childhood, and the ways in which his childhood prepared him for his adult poetic life. Like other British and American Romantic poets, Walt Whitman was interested in this relationship between the formative years of youth and the creative years of adulthood. Thus, Whitman wrote this poem, which is similar to British poet William Wordsworth’s “Lines: Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” and American poet Henry Wadsworth...
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