"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" as an Example of Romanticism

Romantic poetry takes interest in nature expressing emotion and imagination. The Walt Whitman poem is an example of this portraying Walt Whitman as a boy who through observing nature learns life's greatest lessons and how to express emotion to become a poet. He observes the oceans tides and the love and loss of the birds. Alongside the male bird, he learns of death and the movement of life through the tides. Walt Whitman's poem puts …

…one could. Expressing the emotions of love and hope and sorrow and enlightenment make this a truly romantic poem. The poem shows the many sides to life that one must learn while growing up, and here Whitman portrayed that through transcendentalism where in nature one finds all truth that transcends reason, for the reason that in reality one cannot have the sea be there mother or a bird be their brother, let alone understand them.