My Favorite Walt Whitman Poem

I Saw In Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing 
By: Walt Whitman 


I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, 
All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches; 
Without any Companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green, 
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself;
 But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, 
without its friend, its lover near--for I knew I could not; 
And broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined
around it a little moss, 
And brought it away--and I have placed it in sight in my room; 
It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends, 
(For I believe lately I think of little else than them) 
Yet it remains to me a curious token--it makes me think of manly love; 
For all that and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary, in a wide
flat space, 
Uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near, 
I know very well I could not. 


I like this poem because it is easier to understand. Also I think that he is talking about how he doesn't get how people could go through life without someone to lean on. 

Walt Whitman

            Walt Whitman was a poet that was one of the most influential, and innovated poets. He was born around 30 years after the first president was inaugurated. He worked in a lawyer's office for his first job. He worked at a newspaper place after that job. Then he tied out being a teacher, even though he only had schooling until he was eleven. Thomas Jefferson was his brother, they became closer over time. He ended up being an owner of his own newspaper. While he was in New Orleans he wrote his first poem, it was called,  "Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight,". After that he wrote many other poems. He was a Realist and Romanticist. He wrote both kinds of poems. 

How does TV effect peoples emotions?

I think that people watch the kind of shows that they like
to watch because that is how they wish their life could be 
like that. So if they want their life to be more like that TV
 show, they are going to act more like their favorite character.
They are going to act like that person does because they
 are like their role  model. 

Trying to figure things out!

My first post! :)