Walt Whitman: Poems
Answer the question below in complete sentences.
Answer the question below in complete sentences.
2. In the poem’s final line, the speaker’s attention leaves the army and turns to the heavens. There, the speaker describes seeing “the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.” Why might the speaker turn his attention to the sky and what does the fact that the stars are described as “eternal” suggest?