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Reading the passages from “Leaves of Grass” of Walt Whitman at first is a little confusing and distracting because he jumps from a topic to another topic and comes back in a different way. In the passages where he describes the fourth of July, he talks about everyone in the site, from the jeered people like prostitutes to the most honored like patriots.

“The prostitute draggles shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
The crowed laugh at her background oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oath nor jeer you,)”………
…… Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and grandsons around them,
page 43-44

When you read more and you see the big picture than you start to understand the power of the passage and you start making sense of his writings.