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  1. Week 22

    ... letter is one expression of that worry: “I feel uneasy about [you]—” Like his nation, Whitman’s family was coming apart at the ... us, as he surveys the growing number of war cemeteries, about “the significant word Unknown,” and how “in some of the cemeteries ...

    sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01

  2. Week 35

    ... concern for African Americans, he in fact had little to say about emancipated slaves or the Emancipation Proclamation itself. His one ... so ancient hardly human” is, and why she should care about the American colors. The old slave woman, who was torn from her parents ...

    sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01

  3. Week 12

    ... lines of the poem: “(Many a soldier’s loving arms about this neck have cross’d and rested, / Many a soldier’s kiss dwells on ... of the gay population in the capital, and Whitman’s poem about nursing the suffering and dying young men in Civil War hospitals ...

    sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01

  4. Section 6

    ... shifting answers, for he realizes that, the more we think about what the grass truly is, the less we know. Maybe, in the way it manages ... nothing. I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women, And the hints about old men and ...

    kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59

  5. Week 29

    ... is one of them. What does this strange theological poem about a four-sided God have to do with the war? And what are we to make of its ... and two hanging adjectives? Whitman had been thinking about the poem throughout the war, and in his working copy of the 1860 edition ...

    sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01

  6. Week 15

    ... War notebooks, where he recorded talks he had with soldiers about their experiences in the war. This time it was a Maine soldier named ... writes down all the grisly details of Roberts’ narrative about what the soldier saw as his unit finally came to the opening in the ...

    sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01

  7. Week 9

    ... generalized and serene. The poem gives us no information about where we are geographically or why the troops are crossing a ford, nor ... a critic named Betty Barrett made a remarkable discovery about the source of this poem. While reading through the 1868 Rebellion ...

    sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01

  8. Week 25

    ... cordial” bows as they passed. What strikes Whitman most about Lincoln is how “ordinary” he always looked—like “the commonest ... of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation is an offhand comment about how the proclamation dominated the morning’s newspapers but was met ...

    sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01

  9. Section 42

    ... who surround him and help define him: he is not just talking about his intimates but those who are strangers (those many “folks” who are ... primarily an urban poem, Whitman gives us the perfect lines about being a single self among many: “This is the city and I am one of the ...

    kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59

  10. Section 34

    ... every race on earth.” War, however, is by definition about division. What one side in a war calls aggression and hatred and evil, of ... War, later in his life he would write enthusiastically about what he called “the Spanish element in our nationality”: “To that ...

    kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59

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