Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking is a lyric poem by Walt Whitman that meditates on memory, loss, and the awakening of the poetic self through a boy’s encounter with a mourning bird by the sea.

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Generate an image of Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking is a lyric poem by Walt Whitman that meditates on memory, loss, and the awakening of the poetic self through a boy’s encounter with a mourning bird by the sea.)

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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking canonical 10

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lyric poem ⓘ
poem ⓘ
author Walt Whitman ⓘ
centralEvent boy’s encounter with a mourning bird ⓘ
centralImage mourning bird ⓘ
collection Leaves of Grass ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
criticalReputation major lyric of Leaves of Grass ⓘ
editionInLeavesOfGrass 1860 edition ⓘ
firstPublicationYear 1859 ⓘ
firstPublishedIn The Atlantic Monthly ⓘ
form free verse ⓘ
genre elegy ⓘ
lyric ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn modern American poetry ⓘ
language English ⓘ
laterTitle Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
literaryMovement American Romanticism ⓘ
Transcendentalism (influenced) ⓘ
linked to: Transcendentalism
meter irregular ⓘ
motif birdsong ⓘ
sea ⓘ
translation of nature’s voice ⓘ
narrativePerspective first person ⓘ
narrator adult poet recalling childhood ⓘ
originalTitle A Child’s Reminiscence ⓘ
partOf Whitman’s sea-drift poems ⓘ
protagonist a boy by the sea ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor Song of Myself ⓘ
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ
setting Long Island shore ⓘ
linked to: Long Island

seashore ⓘ
structure alternation of narrator and bird’s song ⓘ
stylisticFeature cataloguing ⓘ
musical phrasing ⓘ
parallelism ⓘ
repetition ⓘ
subjectMatter boy’s initiation into awareness of death ⓘ
origin of the poet’s voice ⓘ
symbol bird as poet ⓘ
cradle as sea ⓘ
sea as origin of life and song ⓘ
theme awakening of the poetic self ⓘ
childhood and maturity ⓘ
death ⓘ
loss ⓘ
memory ⓘ
nature as teacher ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Leaves of Grass → notablePoem → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
Walt Whitman → wrote → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking → laterTitle → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
There Was a Child Went Forth → sharesThemeWith → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry → relatedWorkByAuthor → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
A Child’s Reminiscence → originalTitleOf → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
A Child’s Reminiscence → laterRetitledAs → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
A Child’s Reminiscence → hasAlternativeTitle → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
Whitman’s sea-drift poems → notablePoemInSequence → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ
Sea Drift → basedOn → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ