Walt Whitman seems to make a connection with everything around him on his daily commute and the people around him, how everything is connected in some shape or form. He connects “his present” while we make the same connections in our present. Every line is like a connection of the past to the present, the bridge that connects them both. In the line, “Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!” This line is played out both in the past and present, where we all are curious about the people around us that we see as we commute to where we need to go.

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