"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done." To grasp a hold one someone's true being cannot be done through what they have said, or what they have done, but instead, a healthy combination of both. John Greenleaf Whittier, a highly acclaimed icon in nineteenth century American Literature, and his poem "Telling the Bees," can be used to analyze his styles of poetry and even what kind of person he really was.
John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was born to a Quaker family, and received li…
