... commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. Probably the most famous quote was given by President Kennedy "his death impoverishes us all; but he has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding. He died in Boston on ... through this poem voices his hope for world unity and his belief in the oneness of creation. Whitman's Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' portrays a mockingbird (the voice of nature) teaching a little boy (the future poet) the meaning of death. Whitman wrote of poems con...

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