... and he feels “pride and joy in my city” as it goes about the activities of “arming” and volunteering and marching to the ... into battle, will soon find that their “lithe limbs” are about to be sacrificed, as the Civil War stretches from “weeks” to ...
sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01
... says “I too am untranslatable,” he is also thinking about how the “I,” the self, is finally not translatable from one set of ... Perhaps new tribes moved into the area, with different ideas about how to celebrate the lives of those who had passed on, ward off ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... It is a powerful passage, but what is perhaps most striking about it is that Whitman cancels out the first part of it in his notebook, ... of dilation or pride, We have had ducking and deprecating about enough, I show that size is only development. Have you ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... the lapping ocean, awaiting the feast of death it is about to receive when it accepts the bodies and limbs that will be deposited ... to us. Whitman in this section offers a haunting line about that irretrievability, but how does his poetry itself set out to retrieve ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... fast as it was trying to dawn. … Well, arter I had walked about twenty miles up the Peak o' Day and Daybreak Hill I soon discovered what ... axes an’ squeezed him till I'd thawed 'em loose, poured about a ton on’t over the sun's face, give the airth’s cog-wheel one kick ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... made up of the atoms of the land he sings on and sings about). So “Song of Myself” starts us out on what the poet will call “a ... Myself,” to look for him under our boot-soles. A word about Whitman’s prosody: the movement from iambic pentameter in the first ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... to conclude his Sequel to Drum-Taps with this poem about the demobilization of the troops. Imagining himself again as a soldier, ...
sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01
... do in some ways make up what we are, but there is something about each of us that goes far deeper. Whitman shares with Henry David ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
A dead boy, about 14, in the trenches of "rebel Fort Mahone." April 2, 1865. Stereograph. ...
ndurovic - 07/13/2021 - 13:20
Talking about this photo in 1888, Whitman said, "Somebody used to say I sometimes wore ...
ndurovic - 07/13/2021 - 13:20
