YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and its 1855 Preface
Essays 31 - 60
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
also serve to illuminate a lost way of living. In spite of al the missing history, for the last twenty-five years scholars have ...
With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...
transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...
and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...
drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...
printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...
the same as every other human being; there is really no other way to interpret the line "For every atom belonging to me as good be...
Walt Whitman contended that a city absorbs a person as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Five sources are listed in this four ...
tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...
Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...
occupation or condition, unworthy of being saluted in his poetry. Although he was relatively successful in terms of worldly succe...
In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...
just enough on the ball to attempt to rise to a higher level. However, the plays hero is not a particularly unique or sensitive i...
seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...
In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...
was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
free through no other means than verse. "Out from behind this bending, rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this drama of the...
In 5 pages this 1950 poem serves as a reflection on the American literary Renaissance characterized by Walt Whitman and Ralph Wald...
In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...
In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...
In thirteen pages this paper discusses the romantic aspects of science and poetry in a consideration of the works by poets includi...