Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking is a lyric poem by Walt Whitman that meditates on memory, loss, and the awakening of the poetic self through a boy’s encounter with a mourning bird by the sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking canonical | 9 |
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Target entity: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Context triple: [Leaves of Grass, notablePoem, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking]
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Crying in the Wilderness
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Fell on Black Days
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Like a Stone
"Like a Stone" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Audioslave, renowned for Chris Cornell’s haunting vocals and reflective lyrics on mortality and longing.
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Aphrodite's Child
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E.
Songs of Surrender
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Target entity description: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking is a lyric poem by Walt Whitman that meditates on memory, loss, and the awakening of the poetic self through a boy’s encounter with a mourning bird by the sea.
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A.
Crying in the Wilderness
Crying in the Wilderness is a collection of sermons and speeches by Archbishop Desmond Tutu that powerfully denounce apartheid and call for justice and reconciliation in South Africa.
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B.
Fell on Black Days
"Fell on Black Days" is a dark, introspective grunge song by Soundgarden, written and sung by Chris Cornell and released on their acclaimed 1994 album *Superunknown*.
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C.
Like a Stone
"Like a Stone" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Audioslave, renowned for Chris Cornell’s haunting vocals and reflective lyrics on mortality and longing.
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D.
Aphrodite's Child
Aphrodite's Child was a Greek progressive and psychedelic rock band from the late 1960s and early 1970s, best known for its concept album "666" and for launching the careers of Vangelis and Demis Roussos.
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E.
Songs of Surrender
Songs of Surrender is a 2023 album by Irish rock band U2 featuring reimagined and stripped-down versions of songs from across their catalog.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lyric poem
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poem ⓘ |
| author | Walt Whitman ⓘ |
| centralEvent | boy’s encounter with a mourning bird ⓘ |
| centralImage | mourning bird ⓘ |
| collection | Leaves of Grass ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReputation | major lyric of Leaves of Grass ⓘ |
| editionInLeavesOfGrass | 1860 edition ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1859 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Atlantic Monthly ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre |
elegy
ⓘ
lyric ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | modern American poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterTitle | Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking self-link ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American Romanticism
ⓘ
Transcendentalism ⓘ
surface form:
Transcendentalism (influenced)
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| meter | irregular ⓘ |
| motif |
birdsong
ⓘ
sea ⓘ translation of nature’s voice ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| narrator | adult poet recalling childhood ⓘ |
| originalTitle | A Child’s Reminiscence ⓘ |
| partOf | Whitman’s sea-drift poems ⓘ |
| protagonist | a boy by the sea ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Song of Myself
ⓘ
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ |
| setting |
Long Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Long Island shore
seashore ⓘ |
| structure | alternation of narrator and bird’s song ⓘ |
| stylisticFeature |
cataloguing
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musical phrasing ⓘ parallelism ⓘ repetition ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
boy’s initiation into awareness of death
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origin of the poet’s voice ⓘ |
| symbol |
bird as poet
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cradle as sea ⓘ sea as origin of life and song ⓘ |
| theme |
awakening of the poetic self
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childhood and maturity ⓘ death ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ nature as teacher ⓘ |
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Subject: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Description of subject: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking is a lyric poem by Walt Whitman that meditates on memory, loss, and the awakening of the poetic self through a boy’s encounter with a mourning bird by the sea.
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