In “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Walt Whitman does a beautiful job portraying what is like to be connected to the mass of commuters in the ferry. In the poem he describes how he too saw himself looking at the water, looking at the buildings, at the sky, at what the other commuters are looking at. He feels identified with the commuters. In paragraph 6 he compares himself with the actions and thoughts of the commuters by relating to them in more than one way.

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