Natalie Clyne

03-04-15

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The Brooklyn Bridge

The essay entitled “The Brooklyn Bridge” by Phillp Lopate is about how unique and beautiful the Brooklyn Bridge means to him. He tells us how many poets feel about the bridge like Alan Trachtenberg, who says “ For many Americans in 1883, Brooklyn Bridge proved to the nation to be healed of its wound of civil war and on its true course: the peaceful mastery of nature”. Lopate reminds us that the bridge is free plus its connection to Brooklyn to Manhattan and it is universal.