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Hace 4 días · Walt Whitman’s poem ‘An Army Corps on the March’ is about the army corps tirelessly marching towards their goal. Whitman picturesquely draws the scene of the Civil War by utilizing imagery and metaphors in this poem.
Hace 2 días · His poetry often focused on both loss and healing. On the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, whom Whitman greatly admired, he authored two poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures on Lincoln.
Hace 3 días · Jul 23, 2024. —. in Life. Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d, Of ...
Hace 3 días · “Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul,” Whitman wrote in his timeless advice on living a vibrant and rewarding life, “and your very flesh shall be a great poem.” A poem is not a captive of narrative, has no need for resolution, is not a message but an opening.
Hace 2 días · Reading Whitman, we hear his siren song for the beauty and simplicity of life, slipping away in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Reading Leaves of Grass in that moment resurrected something long dormant in me. This awakening led to the redirection of my attention, away from the 24 hour news cycle so that I could get closer to what is real and precious in my life.
Hace 2 días · His book received its share of criticism, both culturally and poetically, but contemporary writers such as Ezra Pound and Carl Sandburg lauded its expressionism and insight—comparing Masters's arrival to that of Walt Whitman's. Even today, this collection remains widely read and is considered a crucial text of early-twentieth-century poetry.
Hace 4 días · My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long stretch of my life. O ripen'd joy of womanhood! O happiness at last!
