... the bloody Battle of Fredericksburg, and he wrote to Emerson about this “freight of helpless worn and wounded youth, genuine of the ... and one near the end—illustrate his keen sense of irony about the quickly shifting nature of the city and the phantasmagoric way that ...
sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01
... the world around us (given all that Whitman has demonstrated about our shared atoms, how could the journey ever really be private?). ... world would take on the tint of the photographs in our books about the Civil War, blurring for a moment the distinction between my ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... actual auctioneer’s catalogue. Soon, everyone was talking about Whitman’s catalogue-technique, and Whitman himself even adopted the ... catalogues: “Oh God! how tired I get of hearing that said about the ‘catalogues’!” He believed reviewers simply could not get past ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... In the 1840s and 1850s, Walt Whitman was reading about and absorbing the latest advances in the sciences and learning how to ... edition of Leaves of Grass , Whitman published a poem about chemistry, based on the facts he had read. He entered through those facts ...
sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01
... his coffin and to honor him. And the poem was in error, too, about the way Lincoln was buried: there was no “lower’d coffin,” and no ... his collection of Civil War poems, Drum-Taps , was about to go to press when Lincoln was assassinated. How to address the most ...
sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01
... Foreword Whitman, writing about education, once commented that “good brains ancient & modern agree that ... see (and—as in the case of “gander”—ways to talk about how we see: if we are keenly observant, for example, we might be said ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... hatred and factionalism of war. War is by definition about division. What one side in a war calls aggression and hatred and evil, of ... the lapping ocean, awaiting the feast of death it is about to receive when it accepts the bodies and limbs that will be deposited ...
sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01
... poet of wickedness also. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... food that over the centuries allowed human curiosity about the great mysteries of life and the universe to grow. But now the poet is ... What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then, The bull and the bug ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... a dramatic threshold to the story of the war as Whitman is about to tell it—a narrative that will center the war not on the battlefields ... folks generally believ'd the prediction. I remember talking about it on a Fulton ferry-boat with the Brooklyn Mayor, who said he only ...
sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01
