【美国人物志】沃尔特·惠特曼 (6/8)

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沃尔特·惠特曼（英语：Walter Whitman，1819年5月31日－1892年3月26日），美国诗人、散文家、新闻工作者及人文主义者。
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"I Hear America Singing"
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Walt Whitman's poems praise the United States and its democracy. The poet expressed his love for America and its people in many ways. This poem is called "I Hear America Singing." It celebrates the many different kinds of workers doing their jobs to help their country.
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.
Those of mechanics, each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong.
The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam.
The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work.
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck.
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands.
The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown.
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing.
Each singing what belongs to him or her, and to none else.
The day what belongs to the day, at night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly.
Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs.