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Admiration and Doubt—Comparing Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and To Brooklyn Bridge
CAI Yi-lun, JIA Xiao-yun
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2019.06.005
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
American poet, Walt Whitman and Harold Hart Crane both write poems about the place connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and To Brooklyn Bridge respectively. By comparing the similarities of these two poems, this paper analyses the two poets’ attitudes towards the development of modern society, finding that both poets not only show admiration for modern society but also doubt about the fast development. It aims to reveal the influence of fast development of modern society on people’s mentality.
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, To Brooklyn Bridge, admiration, doubt
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