This poem's fifth section opens by asking, "What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?" Later, its spea
This poem's fifth section opens by asking, "What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?" Later, its speaker claims, "I am he who knew what it was to be evil" after noting that "the dark threw its patches down upon me also." Originally published as "Sun-Down Poem," it is divided into nine sections and addressed to the "men and women of a generation," with whom the speaker shares "the (*) similitudes of the past and those of the future." This poem instructs readers to "furnish your parts toward the soul" and opens with the line "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!" For 10 points, name this Walt Whitman poem from Leaves of Grass that describes a passage from Manhattan over the East River.
This poem's fifth section opens by asking, "What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?"
“{Crossing Brooklyn Ferry}”