Jarid's post of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

“Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry” is a poem written by Walt Whitman. The poem is telling a story about a person’s trip on the Brooklyn Ferry and how the people before him and after him will share in this historical experience of riding the boat, being under the same shy at a certain time, feeling the boat hit up against the waves, being amongst the crowd, ect. While on the ferry the author also talks abut what he sees while riding the ferry. He is watching the city itself / buildings and the river sea-gulls, the sky’s reflection in the water. I personally like this poem because he is taking a simple subject such as riding the ferry and he is broadening it be cause he is point out things that people would normally not even pay attention to. The author also uses a since of everyone being equal in a way that everyone has to wait on the ferry when they ride it, everyone sees the same thing , they feel the same thing as they ride the ferry. Finally at the end of Walt Whitman’s poem he says that they are one, he loves him and he won’t get rid of him and that they will be together forever.