The Portable Walt WhitmanPenguin, 2003 M12 30 - 608 pages A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories |
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... body part seemed to have been left out. Nowadays we might be inclined to call the lines “free verse,” a form so common that it could even be called the dominant kind of verse. For most readers, rhyme and meter have come to look archaic ...
... Body Electric,” or like an extraordinary notebook entry about “Black Lucifer” that declares “I am the God of revolt—deathless, sorrowful, vast.” From that entry he produced this passage from the 1855 version of “The Sleepers” (excised ...
... body, for example, Whitman writes, in section 5 of “Song of Myself”: I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased to the other. The next few lines address the soul as a lover—physical ...
... body. This dialectic is a constant source of movement organizing his verse. Whitman's writing is so comprehensive that one of his champions claimed there was no significant aspect of the universe that was not dealt with in Leaves of ...
... body and to sex that Whitman achieved in this way represents a watershed in modern culture. Formerly, sexual desire had been seen as an appetite, or a sign of fallen nature, or the animal being against which moral humanity asserts ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |