Cliche, Make My Life Easier

When I started to take my french classes I started to notice how hard it is to explain the simple things in our lives. In Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass he states the same by saying, "A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;/How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is, any more than he." (Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 6.92). I mean, how can you explain to a child what is water without using any scientific terms?

Anyways, I really understood Whitman in this part of the poem, but it was his use of words that made me get the hang of him faster. Using the "stuff" (93) and "I guess"(94) break the ice that the name Walt Whitman and a poem creates. A poem tends to be a very complex text that requires a lot of close reading and analysis to understand, but the words he used make a poem fun. Also, he is doing what he is saying, by choosing simple words to talk about a simple matter, and trying to express a simple literal feeling.

However, I see most of the word choice as a cliche, since the word or expression has been over used. Nevertheless, I recognize that by the time that Whitman wrote the poem, the words weren't misused yet. Whitman was able to pull of expressions that were interesting enough to be instilled in a great number of people, and still be easy enough to use in the daily life and common language.

HOW TO GET WHITMAN'S STYLE

This master of style, breaks the roads of literature, wearing bright colors on the shoes and hats, but calming the neon with some simple shirts. He starts the look with bright ideas that come from his head and introduces. Later, calm the colors with some pastel colors, and use designs that everyone can wear and understand at all times. Finish the look, with more powerful colors in the high heel shoes, but remember it must make a smooth transition with a big statement.