blog 6

Walt Whitman's poem 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' was a really sad story. I am usually pretty positive with Whitman's works, but this one I was not a fan about. The whole thing is dark, gloomy, and dreadful. When I first read through the poem the first time, I did not really get anything out of it, and did not understand it. But then the second time I felt as though I had a better understanding, but I realized how sad it really was.

The whole story is about death,and the power it has. Whitman does a great job one expressing how such a beautiful thing can seem so broken and cold. He often refers to the lilac, and spring time, which is supposed to be a joyous time. Sprig time is when new things come to life,but Whitman uses it to express death, and loss.

He made it a point to expresses every point of a funeral, and death. He speaks about death as if he had just lost someone he cared about very deeply. He specifies every painful moment about a funeral. Even the aspects that a normal person would not recognize, only a person who just loss someone very dear to them.

At some points of the story it seems as though he is not only mourning for himself, but expressing mourning for a group of people. Throughout the poem he did a great job in referring to things that everyone could relate to; to understand the reference,but to also especially, particularly to the person whom the poem was about.Whitman used so much imagery and reference, that it was very easy to paint a picture in your head of the image he was trying to create.