What is the theme of "the child who went forth"? how does whitman develop this theme? write a response of at least 100 words

The main theme that is expressed in this poem is the process of becoming.

In this poem, Whitman talks about the process by which a child becomes a person. He tells us that the child goes out into the world everyday, and looks at a lot of various different things. Everything that he sees or that he is in touch with becomes part of himself. In this way, he develops his consciousness and his identity. This is the natural process of becoming, of change and of development.

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The main theme of  "The Child Who Went Forth" is the process of becoming in the poem Whitman talks about the process of a child becoming an adult he explains how the child goes out and explores and learns new things and the child doing this shapes his personality as an adult.

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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