First published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, this ten-line lyric shows Whitman in his imagination surveying certain illustrative tragic or difficult scenes the world over. The poet is trying to tell us it is wrong simply to observe suffering. The main theme or message of Whitman's 《I Sit and Look Out》 is that it is not enough to ...
沃尔特·惠特曼（英语：Walt Whitman，1819年5月31日－1892年3月26日），出生于纽约州长岛，美国著名诗人、人文主义者，创造了诗歌的自由体（Free Verse），其代表作品是诗集《草叶集》(Leaves of Grass)。
还是在"What I Feel About Walt Whitman"这篇散文中，庞德说： Whitman is to America"what Dante is to Italy". 惠特曼之于美国，就好比但丁之于意大利。 他承认了惠特曼对美国现代主义文学的影响力，承认了自己和惠特曼作品之间share的共通源头、理念和传达的主旨。
Walt Whitman emphasized the intuition and mystical apprehension of truth which was the evidence of the impact of Emerson’s Transcendentalism. He also believed the optimism and self-confidence and insisted the hope for a better society laying in the self-reform and self-development of the individual.