Question: central idea of the poem out of the cradle endlessly rocking

title: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
text: `` Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking '' is a poem by Walt Whitman . It is one of Whitman 's complex and successfully integrated poems . Whitman used several new techniques in the poem . One is the use of images like bird , boy , sea . The influence of music is also seen in opera form . Some critics have taken the poem to be an elegy mourning the death of someone dear to him . The basic theme of the poem is the relationship between suffering and art . It shows how a boy matures into a poet through his experience of love and death . Art is a sublimation of frustrations and death is a release from the stress and strains caused by such frustrations . The language is similar to `` There Was a Child Went Forth '' . 

Answer: answer: ``Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'' is a poem by Walt Whitman. The basic theme of the poem is the relationship between suffering and art. It shows how a boy matures into a poet through his experience of love and death.