Whitman's+'Crossing+Brooklyn+Ferry'

Find and read the poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" here: http://www.bartleby.com/142/86.html

__** Answer 2 questions with 5-8 sentences each in the discussion section: **__  1) What is your first reaction to this poem? Feelings about it? Possible meanings?  2) What ideas, thoughts, impressions, and/or images stand out for you after reading this poem?  3) What was most the most interesting, intriguing, or favorite line from this poem? Why?  4) What line, lines, stanza, or stanzas were most confusing to you? Why?  5) What words in this poem seem especially important to you? Why?  6) What seems to be the mood or feeling of this poem? What words create this mood?  7) What connections can you make with this poem? How do you relate to this poem? Or if you do not connect with this poem, why do you think this is?  8) What qualities of this poem seem unique to Whitman’s style of writing and choice of themes?  9) What is one question or a point of confusion you have about this poem?