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<p>...Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,</p>
<p>Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating,</p>
<p>shuttling at thy sides,</p>
<p>Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the</p>
<p>distance,</p>
<p>Thy great protruding head-light fix'd in front,</p>
<p>Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate</p>
<p>purple,</p>
<p>The dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smoke-stack,</p>
<p>Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle</p>
<p>of thy wheels,</p>
<p>Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily following,</p>
<p>Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering;</p>
<p>Type of the modern-emblem of motion and power-pulse of</p>
<p>the continent...</p>
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Fiction/Poetry
Title
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"To A Locomotive in Winter" (Excerpt)
Language
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English
Publisher
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American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
Description
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Walt Whitman ardently depicted scenes and objects of modernity in the mid 19th century, seeing beauty in the power and invention of the machine age. This set him apart from a slightly earlier generation of artists, poets, and writers like Henry David Thoreau or William Wordsworth who decried the onset of industrialization and romanticized "the sublime" of unspoiled nature.
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Walt Whitman
Source
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Walt Whitman, "To a Locomotive in Winter," in <em>Leaves of Grass</em> (Philadelphia: REES WELSCH & Co., 1882.) Available in The Walt Whitman Archive, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/index.html
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Date
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1881 - 1882
Coverage
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Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
railroads
Walt Whitman