Thursday, July 21, 2011

Please provide help writing an explication of the poem "Old Walt" by Langston Hughes.

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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