“The Brooklyn Bridge” by Phillip Lopate pg 247

The page I was assigned to read talks to us in a very rich vocabulary and paints mental images in our minds. It also shows how proud and fascinated the author is with the Brooklyn Bridge. He says that the bridge is an engineering marvel and is a important landmark in Brooklyn which is shown through the following line from his essay  Babon had her hanging gardens, Egypt her pyramid, Athens her Acropolis, Rome her Atheneum, so Brooklyn has her Bridge”. I also learned that it was made to tie togehter New York’s City Hall and Brooklyns City Hall together. Finally you see his sense of pride when he oncludes a quote from George Templeton Strong, ” I hereby prophecy that in 1900 AD Brooklyn will be the city and New York will be the suburb”