SD: The White House by Moonlight

This was beautifully written, I really loved reading it and had to read aloud to my roommate. It shows the kind of writer Whitman was, one who took the moment in completely, was able to intertwine his thoughts about a subject and relay it to the reader. I like how he added words like, "illusion", "drama" and "reality" because Whitman saw things in  a beautiful light but also in a true light. One can romanticize about a structure like the white house and try to connect it to all things just and true, but the white house is a representation of our American Government, of our country and though it is beautiful and dazzling to a person, it also holds reality of sometimes being a tragic drama of our reality.