 | James Dunkerley - 2000 - 732 pages
...upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a...say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. It is as himself in the guise - or 'subject position' - of either gender that he yields to the 'oceanic... | |
 | Vivian R. Pollak - 2000 - 300 pages
...myself. . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a...say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. (LG 1855, p. 44) As Whitman attempts to translate conventional codes of pleasure and pain into "a new... | |
 | Martha C. Nussbaum - 2003 - 770 pages
...woman." In SM these words become the poetic lines, "I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, / And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a...say there is nothing greater than the mother of men" (SM 21.425-7). And although Whitman continued to stress the importance of the woman's role as mother,... | |
 | Carlos Lee Barney Dews, Carolyn Leste Law - 2001 - 260 pages
...self-reliance, Thoreau's "lives of quiet desperation," and Whitman's "Song of Myself," which insists "it is as great to be a woman as to be a man," I cracked open the door and found myself there, waiting. Recently, I have come to understand that religion... | |
 | Milton Meltzer - 2002 - 176 pages
...was "the only poet who had done justice to women." I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a...say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. Walt spoke little, just listened to the many speeches and messages honoring him, several from the foremost... | |
 | Gregory Orr - 2002 - 250 pages
...equal, he declares (a radical social claim in his day): I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man. ("Song of Myself," section 21) The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred. ("I Sing the... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2003 - 255 pages
...upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a...We have had ducking and deprecating about enough, 21 2:19 KM Page 38 Have you outstript the rest? are you the President? It is a trifle, they will more... | |
 | Martina Pfeiler - 2003 - 174 pages
...from "Leaves of Grass" (Book I, 21) illustrates this: I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a...there is nothing greater than the mother of men. [..-I Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed... | |
 | Angelique Richardson - 2003 - 284 pages
...mother, to put her work on a more respected basis. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a...say there is nothing greater than the mother of men sang Walt Whitman, and who will say him nay?77 As with the question of poverty and the health of the... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2005 - 228 pages
...myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, 425 And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a...about enough, I show that size is only development. 430 Have you outstrip! the rest? are you the President? .It is a trifle, they will more than arrive... | |
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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. 
