I Sit and Look Out by Walt Whitman line by line Explanation // In Hindi..

#American_Literature #M.A._English_Literature #csjmu #American_Literature #M.A._English_Literature #csjmu 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; In the poem “i Sit and Look Out” Whitman is confined to the four-walls of his house. He looks out and finds that the world is full of sorrows, oppression, shame and anguish. He is pained to find that some people are shamefully oppressing others. The poet silently sees the sorrows of the people arising from oppression, ill-treatment and humiliation. He is able to hear paroxysmal sobs of the youth frustrated. Some young men commit shameful deeds and then repent after the deeds are 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 rankling's of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid—I see these sights on the earth; He observes with disappointment and miserable plight of the poor mothers who are neglected by their children and consequently they become desperate and die. Here poet talks about children who have taken advantage of their own mothers And now when their mothers lies all alone distressed, dying in solitude and needs help and affection but ignored and neglected by her own children. Further The Husbands are pen pictured as “ Callous lovers” who cheated their wives and young women. Whitman sees the wives being exploited and misused by their husbands. Similarly, young women are seduced by evil characters. Further lines points out the jealousy of human race among themselves, unrequited love that is seemingly impossible to hide. 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. According to Whitman The whole society suffers due to war and tyranny. Those person who fight for a noble cause are tortured, imprisoned and hanged. Among the sailors, famine spreads and it becomes necessary to throw away people one by one into the sea to save lives of the rest. The poet also observed that the poor, the laborer's are humiliated and insulted by the power arrogent people. The powerful people enslave the negroes. The poet looks at this sad spectacle of life and remains silent. Neither he tries to find out the reasons for the sufferings of humanity not does he offer any remedy to improve the sufferings of the poor workers. But he does criticize the oppression of human beings.