In the poem "Old Walt" by Langston Hughes, the author
            describes, in a rhythmic fashion, the manner in which Walt Whitman worked before
            creating each piece of his great expanse of prose and
            verse.
Hughes explains the process as a "seeking" and
            "finding" as Whitman starts with a question and looks for the answer or answers to that
            question.
"Finding less than sought" infers that Whitman
            had more questions than he found answers for.
"Every detail
            minding" indicates that the information he collected always moved towards finding an
            answer, and that the poet paid close attention to the details, never swerving from the
            truth of those pieces of information, but continuing with what he found, the process of
            "seeking and finding."
"Pleasured equally in seeking as in
            finding" means that for Whitman, the search brought as much satisfaction to him as
            finding the answer.
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