You studied a text analysis of the poem "I Hear America Singing." Consider how the speaker of the poem describes America as “singing.” Write a paragraph discussing the central theme of the poem, drawing information from the text. Cite specific evidence to support your analysis.

The dominant theme of the poem “I Hear America Singing” is work, specifically hard and intense manual labor. Whitman clearly dedicates the poem to people who work hard day by day: mechanics, carpenters, masons, boatmen, deckhands, shoemakers, hatters, wood-cutters, ploughboys, mothers, wives or girls.

- "these rights are natural and god-given to all men equally." (i disagree cuz i kind of think it's 'a' but who knows.)

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.