"i sit and look out"
walt whitman

i sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;
i hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
i see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate;
i see the wife misused by her husband—i see the treacherous seducer of young women;
i mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid—i see these sights on the earth;
i see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—i see martyrs and prisoners;
i observe a famine at sea—i observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd, to preserve the lives of the rest;
i observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
all these—all the meanness and agony without end, i sitting, look out upon,
see, hear, and am silent.

"first they came "
martin niemöller

first they came for the socialists, and i did not speak out-—
because i was not a socialist.
then they came for the trade unionists, and i did not speak out—
because i was not a trade unionist.
then they came for the jews, and i did not speak out—
because i was not a jew.
then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

use the excerpts above to write an essay, at least two paragraphs, supporting the question below. remember to clearly state your main point and use quotes from the text to support your response, using the proper mla format.

how do niemöller's words in "first they came " repeat the theme developed in "i sit and look out" by walt whitman?

      Niemöller's words in "First they came for..." illustrate the theme that silence is the greatest sin among all things, and this message is also conveyed in "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman.

        In the poem "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman, he talks about the cruelty and oppression among humans. Whitman elaborates on certain images of oppression such as seeing "wives misused by her husband," and "the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny". Although Whitman scrutinizes the sins of human beings such as jealousy and arrogance, near the end of the poem he reveals that being silent and being an onlooker among the oppression that occurs is the greatest sin of all. In the lines "All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon, see, hear, and am silent" Whitman is saying that even though he sees all these things happening in the world, he simply watches instead of doing the right thing.

      In the poem First they came for..." by Martin Niemöller talks about how Adolf Hitler along with the Nazis went after and killed innocent people during the Nazi rule.The theme of this poem is that silence is deadly, and the poem clearly illustrates that. In the lines "Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me" Niemöller is saying that because he did not speak out against the innocent killing of people such as Jews and Socialists, there was no one left to save him or speak out against him being killed. The same message of the theme is illustrated in the poem "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman because he explains that him being a bystander and silent among all the oppression he's seen and heard has led them to keep happening.

    To conclude both of the poems convey the message to readers that standing by and not doing the right thing, hurts everyone and is the most cruel thing we can do.

Explanation: Please rewrite in own words :)

identify the subordinate clause in each of the following sentences. tell whether each clause is used as an adjective, an adverb, or a noun.

11.) emily dickinson, who was born in 1830in amherst, massachusetts, was a great american poet.

12.) she appeared to lead a fairly normal life until she became a recluse in her family's home.

13.) there she wrote poems that literary critics now call "great american poetry".

14.) unfortunately, only a few of dickinson's poems were published while she was alive.

15.) after she died in 1886, her other poems were published.

16.) i think everyone should reaad at least some of dickonson's poetry.

17.) dickinson is a poet whose work i now read often.

18.) the poems i have just finished reading are "a narrow fellow in the grass" and "apparently with no surprise"

19.) the rythyms of dickonson's poems are best appreciated when you read the poems aloud.

20.) whatever i read by emily dickonson surprises amd inspires me.

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doris lessing is the kind of writer who has followers, not just readers. they have been engaged to her chiefly because of her involvement in major problems, such as politics and woman-ism."