In Walt Whitman's poem "I hear America Singing" Whitman talks about how Americans go throughout there jobs doing there everyday tasks. Whitman describes casual American jobs and says they are all singing there song for there job. At the end of the poem Whitman mentions that everyone of the workers songs are melodious and strong. Americans are great, strong people according to Whitman. Whitman likes America and the people and how they do there everyday jobs happily.
In Vonneguts book "A Man Without a Country" Vonnegut talks about how Americans are harsh people that are frowned upon by other countries. Vonnegut mentions how America steals from the poor and how soldiers are just being used. The soldiers are the people who protect our government and the soldiers are frowned upon by the government for being lower class people. Vonnegut basically says Americas pathetic in what they do to there people. That's the reason they are frowned upon by other countries.
These two people have very different opinions on America. Whitman likes America and the people while Vonnegut hates America and thinks they are unreasonable people. It seems it's either you hate America or like it there isn't much in between in these two peoples opinions.
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