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Walt Whitman
A community portal about Walt Whitman with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Walter Whitman was an American Romantic poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many... [more]
A community portal about Walt Whitman with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Walter Whitman was an American Romantic poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death, his works have been translated into more than 25 languages. Whitman is among the most influential and controversial poets in the American canon. His work has been described as a "rude shock" and "the most audacious and debatable contribution yet made to American literature." He largely abandoned the metrical structures of European poetry for an expansionist freestyle verse—"irregular" but "beautifully rhythmic"— which represented his philosophical view that America was destined to reinvent the world as emancipator and liberator of the human spirit. As Whitman wrote in Leaves of Grass, "Rhymes and rhymers pass away—... America justifies itself, give it time..."
When I heard the learn’d astronomer by Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in...
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It is a fitting coincidence that the birthday of Walt Whitman always occurs within the same week in which America commemorates its fallen soldiers. Whitman???s voice is the voice of the soldier, the battlefield???the American experience of war. Whitman never picked up a rifle, and he never faced the onslaught of an enemy bayonet charge; however, Whitman???s time in Washington as a volunteer working with the Civil War wounded becomes, in his writing, a testament of combat and an encomium...
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman My Picture-Gallery Walt Whitman IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix’d house, It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other; Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories? Here the tableau's of life, and here the groupings of death; Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself, With finger rais’d he points to the...
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Long Island peace activists will converge on the Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington Station Saturday in the first event of a planned Summer 2008 Stop the War Long Island Mall Tour.
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The Department of Transportation is reporting some traffic congestion on I-76 approaching the Walt Whitman Bridge.
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When one man's family history pointed towards an association with Walt Whitman, research efforts resulted in a new website archiving the poet's old stomping grounds. Whitman's Brooklyn looks at the borough, where Whitman moved at the age of 4, during the mid to late 1800s.
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Before we had to ask Brookyn to "shut up" due to an influx of preciousness, Jonathan Safran Foer, and five-dollar organic cookies, poet Walt Whitman lived there - way back in the 1850s.
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Over at Popmatters, a number of writers give us essays on the second-hand bookstore: The economics of bookstores, the cultural significance of bookstores, heck even what your local second-hand bookstore can teach you about potential suitors. But no matter how wonderful these stores are you...
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Iraq War protesters once again all but dared a mall chain to eject them Saturday for wearing T-shirts identical to the red-splotched one that landed an 80-year-old peace activist in jail earlier this year when he refused a mall's demand he take his ...
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Coast Guard officials are trying to determine how a fishing boat ended up sinking near the Walt Whitman Bridge Wednesday.
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I agree with Walt Whitman and with Mike Nigbor's recent letter as well. How can we support a 'justice center' when the District Attorney authorizes the police to deliver cocaine to potential informants? Since ...
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A PLAQUE in memory of an American poet has been unveiled outside Bolton Library and Museum.
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East 08 wrote this post on vertical jump today on their blog:
Pepe goes by Pepper to her teammates and coaches and she impressed them with her 14.6 Yo-Yo Recover test (the third best score in that test today) and the Vertical Jump test where she leaped above all but two of her teammates on her...
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