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To a Locomotive in Winter

            Honestly, I did not feel like to read the poem when I see its title because I guessed it is something about a locomotive that works during the winter time. Since the poem “To a Locomotive in Winter” by Walt Whitman was a reading assignment, so I read it and I found it is not as boring as I thought of. Similar to “Young Goodman Brown”, Whitman uses early modern English to write the poem since he uses words such as, “thy”, “thee” and “thyself” throughout the poem. I like descriptions that praised the locomotive; Whitman describes the sound, the appearance and the feeling of the locomotive via personification. The part that I like the least is the object that Whitman focuses on—the locomotive. I would feel more likely to read it if Whitman writes about a tree in winter, so I do not recommend it to my friend.