9. To You by Walt Whitman

                 To You by Walt Whitman was a poem written in the mid-1800's, which makes it a little hard to understand. This poem isn't actually written in old English. The poem seems to be written to a loved one by the writer. It talks about the loved one being a dreamer, or dreaming to be something different; he mentioned him seeing her as who she really is, instead of being what she dreams of being. He keeps going on about how perfect she is. He talks about singing "grandeur glories" of her. The poem talks about how she is perfect the way she is, even though she tries to change herself. She does good deeds and acts but is hated for them. He loves her above all things, and more than anyone else. She is disliked for simple things, it seems, but these are the sole things he loves about her. And still, all the bad things, are "parted aside". He compares her to the greatest things a man or a woman can do. He then tells her to set aside all the hatred that is bared on her, and to be herself even though others don't approve. She is "immense and interminable" as is nature, but still, she can master them. The poem sounds like a long, great poem about a love for a man to a woman, but in the end, it talks about her as a "master", or "mistress". Still after all of that display of his love for her, the poem addresses her as a man or a woman.