YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and its 1855 Preface
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time, as well as giving rise by their death to the new life, the "stalwart heir who approaches" (Whitman 1) of the new America....
mankind needs to hear. One of those messages is that of the role of poetry, for himself, and for mankind. He sees himself as a t...
center of the work is that which relates to length and depth. This is the longest poem in the work and it is a poem that deeply an...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
The transcendentalism of Walt Whitman is discussed in a paper consisting of seven pages which focuses upon analysis of the poem 'S...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...
are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...
In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...
In 5 pages this paper examines metaphor and symbolic uses of grass in an analysis of 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman. There are ...
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...
Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
Two of Walt Whitman's most famous works, O Captain, My Captain and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, capture the essence o...
himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...
life, which may help to explain why he wrote about it in detail in Views from a tuft of grass. This book is a collection of essays...
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...
work of Susan B. Anthony and others like her the womens movement would be far more stagnated than it currently is. Anthonys...
spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...
each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...
avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations he...