What kind of poem is after the sea-ship by Walt Whitman?

1) What images can you visualize?

I can visualize a vast sailing ship with huge white colored sails sailing in the ocean water. Along the sides of the boat, there are waves which seem to be wanting to lift up. I can visualize these waves 'following' the ship because as the ship moves, it displaces the water and causes waves. I can visualize the waves seem to be endlessly having fun in banging into the boat and flow with the current.

2) What do you think the songwriter is trying to describe to you?

I think that the author is trying to describe to us a large ship which is sailing in the water, causing waves to form behind it. The waves are seeming to be be very 'energetic and are seeming to want to go further up the ships hull than just a meter.

3) Write a response "letter" back to the writer.

Hi Mr. Whitman,

I think you have done a great job in expressing your visualization of a scene as simple as a ship sailing in the water I think you have used many types of poetry elements such as rhythm and alliterations which make your poem interesting to read.

After the Sea-Ship-after the whistling winds;

After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,

Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,

Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:

Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,

Waves, undulating waves-liquid, uneven, emulous waves,

Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,

Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;