There Was a Child Went Forth

This poem held a similarity to "I Hear America Singing", but in this case, it was more country side-set. Where there could be the same classes but there are also differences in the way that some jobs are not in the country side as they are in the city. But at the same time, there are limited perspectives, where the city folk are closer to the government in some way, but is still a comparison of the middle classes of people.

In this view it was a bit revolved around the boy who grew up on the countryside. The only "bad guy" in the poem were the storms really. "And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became," was one of the quotes in the poem that intrigued me. It seems that his mind was a sponge and that he absorbed the objects around him, whether it be nature or some form of object. 

The people of the little town are depicted as peaceful. The boys would be quarrelsome and the girls would be "fresh-cheeked". There is also no real higher class depicted in this poem as well, which connects to "I Hear America Singing". But at the same time, race was also added into this poem since he added "barefoot Negro boy and girl" who were also walking like all the other children. 

All in all it also intrigued me that it was a free-verse poem but it was as long as a short story. Which poems could be considered short stories. There was no limitation in this story due to the free-verses, and also no limitation to structure.