Hello All,  I’m sorry this letter is getting to you so late in the day. My daughter was home sick, and I had to take her to the doctor.  This week we are reading Walt Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” The subject of this poem is the commuter ferry that ran from Brooklyn to Manhattan in the decades before the Brooklyn Bridge was built–so, a long time ago. Whitman imagines connecting with and identifying with his fellow commuters while simultaneously trying to define and assert himself as an individual. Some see this as a poem about the relationship between the individual and the community; I prefer to see it as…

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