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at all my notions.

My crime.

All worlds are my worlds. All advances are my advances.

My Captain!”

My hands, my limbs grow nerveless, My brain feels rack’d, bewilder’d, Let the old timbers part, I will

At the bottom of the recto of the first leaf we find this passage: My Lesson my Have you learned the

to my bare-stript heart, And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my feet.

Part of my purpose in this coda to my exploration of the poet’s creative pro- cess is to take advantage

or “To the Leaven’d Soil they Trod,” Or “Captain! My Captain!”

Le Baron), mystical experience, 9, 36 165, 265n9 “Oh Captain! My Captain!”

JohnRietz"My Picture-Gallery" (1880)"My Picture-Gallery" (1880)First published in The American in 1880

and incorporated into Leaves of Grass in 1881, "My Picture-Gallery" is a (revised) six-line excerpt

My Picture-Gallery," which originally served to set up the 115-line catalogue of "Pictures," is a riddle

With the catalogue of "Pictures" excised, the emphasis of "My Picture-Gallery" is shifted away from the

"My Picture-Gallery" (1880)

KarenWolfe"Good-Bye my Fancy!" (1891)"Good-Bye my Fancy!"

1891)The concluding poem of the Second Annex to the "authorized" 1891–1892 Leaves of Grass, "Good-Bye my

"Good-Bye my Fancy!"

"Good-Bye my Fancy!"

"Good-Bye my Fancy!" (1891)

My version of "Live Oak" differs from Parker's version in the Fourth Edition of The Norton Anthology

of American Literature (1994) , and Parker disapproves of my version, my title, and my interpretation

My essay first appeared in American Poetry Review months before The Continuing Presence came out, and

In any case, it's the later essay with my version of "Live Oak" that Parker rails against.

Parker is right in saying that I neglected to defend my choice, clearly a flaw in my essay.

NarayanaChandran"Who Learns My Lesson Complete?" (1855)"Who Learns My Lesson Complete?"

(1855)First published without a title in Leaves of Grass (1855), "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?"

"'I' and 'You' in 'Who Learns My Lesson Complete?': Some Aspects of Whitman's Poetic Evolution."

"Who Learns My Lesson Complete?" (1855)

A line like "What think you I take my pen in hand to record?"

dear friends, my lovers.

my thoughts—I do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.

What is yours is mine, my father . . .

my likeness!

NarayanaChandran"Earth, My Likeness" (1860)"Earth, My Likeness" (1860)Published as "Calamus" number 36

in the third (1860) edition of Leaves of Grass, "Earth, My Likeness" acquired its present title in 1867

"Earth, My Likeness" (1860)

JackField"Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only" (1860)"Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only" (1860

Adhesiveness," which the poet addresses in "Not Heaving" as the "pulse of my life," is a term from phrenology

"Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only" (1860)

Sheree L.Gilbert"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your

Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" first appeared in Whitman's separately

"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)

WalterGraffinHarris, Frank (1856–1931)Harris, Frank (1856–1931) Best known for his unreliable autobiography My

In My Life and Loves, he tells of hearing Whitman's 1877 Philadelphia lecture on Paine and being greatly

My Life and Loves. 1922. Ed. John F. Gallagher. New York: Grove, 1963. Pullar, Philippa.

Donald BarlowStauffer"Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891)"Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891

)This group of poems originally appeared in the book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Whitman's last miscellany

the New York theater, etc.A group of thirty-one poems from the book was later printed as "Good-Bye my

death he had frequently expressed in his younger years.There are two poems with the title "Good-Bye my

"Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891)

GuiyouHuang"Beginning My Studies" (1865)"Beginning My Studies" (1865)This poem first appeared in the

declaration not to become a systematic or aggressive student of philosophy.In theme and tone "Beginning My

"Beginning My Studies" (1865)

First Annex" (the Second Annex contains poems from a previously published miscellany entitled Good-Bye My

Talking to Traubel about the subject matter of these poems, Whitman said, "Of my personal ailments, of

"Queries to My Seventieth Year" reveals some of the ambiguous feelings he has about the year to come.

In "As I Sit Writing Here" he writes, "Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,

/ Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui, / May filter in my daily songs

Oh my captain! called Whitman."

This is why I send you My leaping verses, my bounding verses, my spasmodic verses, My hysteria-attack

Hydraulic pump tearing out my guts and my feeling it!

My soul! .. . My ties and ballasts leave me ...

My Captain!," "Come up from the Fields, Father," and "The Singer in Prison."

I thank my daughter, Myrth Killingsworth, an ecocritic in her own right, for being my writing companion

On hikes in the Smoky Mountains, one of my regular companions was my friend and major professor F.

Professor Miller directed my dissertation, which ultimately led to my first book, Whitman's Poetry of

just as I was saying good-bye to DeWolfe Miller and my friends in Tennessee and heading west where my

bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.

Robert K.Martin"What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?"

(1860)"What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?"

"What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?" (1860)

The récherché or ethereal sense, as used in my book, arises probably from it, Calamus presenting the

attachment," concluding "I proceed for all who are or have been young men, / To tell the secret of my

The next poem, "Scented Herbage of My Breast," initially introduces an extraordinarily copious imagery

expose me more than all my other poems."

O pulse of my life! / Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs."

Do you think my getting my shirts made so cheaply, or my buying clothes at a low price, has anything

In the 1860 edition he boasts that he will "take for my love some prostitute" ("Enfans d'Adam" number

PatrickMcGuire"My Boys and Girls" (1844)"My Boys and Girls" (1844)While this sketch first appeared in

"My Boys and Girls" (1844)

When it was first published, it began with the line "Here my last words, and the most baffling."

They are his "frailest . . . and yet my strongest lasting."

have survived as positive examples of homosexual desire.Whitman admits in this poem, "I shade and hide my

Townsend Trowbridge left a deft and important portrait of their relationship in his autobiography, My

In My Own Story Trowbridge relates how he first came across excerpts of Leaves of Grass while staying

accepted me on general principles and has never so far as I know revised his original declaration in my

little scholarship exists which examines Whitman's influence on Trowbridge but surely poems such as "My

My Own Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. ———. The Poetical Works of John Townsend Trowbridge.

Whitman's own experiences during this visit to the front.The soldier's epitaph—"Bold, cautious, true, and my

The latent meaning submerged within "my loving comrade" as the antithesis of "true," in other words,

"My book and the war are one," Whitman would assert in "To Thee Old Cause" (1871); in "Toilsome" that

what he had recently described in "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" as his program to "exploit [my

The dominant themes in the two annexes, "Sands and Seventy" and Good-Bye my Fancy," as well as in "Old

Speaking to Horace Traubel about their subject matter, Whitman said, "Of my personal ailments, of sickness

This questioning mood may be found in "Queries to my Seventieth Year," published about a month before

Still the lingering sparse leaves are, he says, "my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest, / The

that Walt acted as a substitute father to his brothers and sisters, as he suggests in an early story, "My

"I nourish active rebellion," Whitman challenges (section 14); "Camerado, I give you my hand!

with him I love" (1860 Leaves), but even for Whitman, the decision to publicly "tell the secret of my

Perhaps he was thinking of Vaughan when he wrote, "This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own

that he would "confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them" ("As I Lay with My

Robert K.Martin"Scented Herbage of My Breast" (1860)"Scented Herbage of My Breast" (1860)The second of

"Scented Herbage of My Breast" (1860)

published in Lippincott's Magazine in December of 1890 and included in the second annex, "Good-Bye my

characteristically, letting go of its material attributes: "For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my

is well known, as in line 7: "So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my

his remarks to others of how it was to live with Louisa and George: "[I] have for three years, during my

as at an inn—and the whole affair in precisely the same business spirit" (Correspondence 3:47), and "My

the morning, & keeps me a good bed and room—all of which is very acceptable—(then, for a fellow of my

In his Memoirs, Neruda wrote of his own work, "If my poetry has any meaning at all, it is [its] tendency

Another poet of this same hemisphere helped me along this road, Walt Whitman, my comrade from Manhattan

Nixonicide and Praise for the Chilean Revolution) with the following invocation:It is as an act of love for my

"My Voice Goes After What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology

My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes

to balance them at last, My knowledge my live parts....it keeping tally with the meaning of things,

Come my children, Come my boys and girls, and my women and household and intimates, Now the performer

, Depriving me of my best as for a purpose, Unbuttoning my clothes and holding me by the bare waist,

impending death as but one of his soul's many incarnations and promotions: "I receive now again of my

many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me" ("So Long!").

especially profound or "real" form of experience which develops or "identifies" his soul: "O the joy of my

My soul vibrated back to me from them . . .

The real life of my senses and flesh transcending my senses and flesh" ("Song of Joys").This sense of

trousers around my boots, and my cuffs back from my wrists, and go with drivers and boatmen and men

gab and my loitering.

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. (15)

to my bare-stript heart, And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my feet.

You my rich blood!

One of those children was five-year-old Walt Whitman, who, as he recorded in "My First Reading—Lafayette

"My First Reading—Lafayette." Specimen Days. Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall.

Buds" (1891)"Unseen Buds" first appeared in 1891 in the second annex of Leaves of Grass, "Good-Bye my

later editions.However, when read along with "The Unexpress'd," "Grand is the Seen," and "Good-Bye my

Leaves of Grass, Whitman confidently anticipated that in a "few years . . . the average annual call for my

necessitated a level of pride equal to the enormous task of an American poetry: "I know perfectly well my

own egotism," he admits, "[k]now my omnivorous lines and must not write any less."

avowedly chant 'the great pride of man in himself,' and permit it to be more or less a motif of nearly all my

Not my enemies ever invade me—no harm to my pride from them I fear; But the lovers I recklessly love—lo

me, ever open and helpless, bereft of my strength!

Because my enemies clarify my ego by antagonism, while the mastery of my lovers is indistinguishable

from my own recklessness?

My individuality is yours, my thirst yours, my appetites yours,mydifferencesyours.Iamalikeinmydifferences

Like the bachelor-speaker of "My Boys and Girls," the speaker here knows that the way to keep his heart

Childhood here, as in "My Boys and Girls," calls up other reminders of the sorrows of the world and especially

Here it is a call for help, an invocation, a word Whitman actually uses ("as now to thee I launch my

prepares for old age and death, as his images may hint: "Prepare the later afternoon of me myself—prepare my

lengthening shadows / Prepare my starry nights."

Although one additional poem, "Come, said my Soul," would later be restored to the Leaves as epigraph

Between the poems and the essay, filling pages 405–422, appeared the second annex, "Good-Bye my Fancy

of his long labors: "L. of G. at last complete—after 33 y'rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my

work, books especially, has pass'd; and waiting till fully after that, I have given (pages 423–438) my

by the 1889 text of the poems of Leaves of Grass; the two annexes, "Sands at Seventy" and "Good-Bye my

friend, my lover, was coming, then o I was happy; each breath tasted sweeter—and all that day my food

The poet’s fluid movement between the singular “my friend, my lover” and the more indefinite “a friend

“I know my words are weapons, full of danger, full of death,” the poet declares in “as I lay with my

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body,” says the naked

legs and his tongue was in my bellybutton. and then when he was tickling my fundament just behind the

text had for its third line: "Doubtless I could not have perceived the universe, or written one of my

Whitman deletes this line in 1867 and replaces it with "(I loved a certain person ardently and my love

"I place my hand upon you," he writes; "I whisper with my lips close to your ear."

"Whoever you are," he pleads, then, "you be my poem."

What begins as a statement of equality between two opposites, "I believe in you my soul, the other I

This idea supports the fluid identity of a speaker who in section 16 "resist[s] any thing better than my

idea of romantic nature philosophy, that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: "Before I was born out of my

mother generations guided me, / My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it."

/ Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling, / I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling

soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" (section 1).The second, related

knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my

own,And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,And that all the men ever born are also

my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,And that a kelson of the creation is love,And limitless

the 1881 edition are definitive, the annexes that appear after 1881—"Sands at Seventy" and "Good-Bye my

Ferry" in her novel Alexander's Bridge (1912), to Whitman's doctrine of the "open road" in her novel My

"The Doctrine of the Open Road in My Ántonia." Approaches to Teaching Cather's "My Ántonia." Ed.

regulations, to the beach, where the speaker bathes in the sea and watches the sun rise and thinks how "my

dear friend my lover was on his way coming."

I took my M.A. in 1947 and my Ph.D. in 1949, the year after Lucy took hers.

I want to conclude by describing my encounter with someone my wife and I met when we visited Whitman's

body to meet my lover the sea, I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.

I am grateful to my colleague Jerome Loving for calling my attention to this essay by Allen, an early

I thank my friend and former colleague Kenneth Price, who directed this dissertation, for calling my

But a later letter to Rossetti recanted this position: "I cannot and will not consent, of my own volition

, to countenance an expurgated edition of my pieces" (Whitman 942).

My Bondage and My Freedom. 1855. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987. ———.

Just when all seems lost, he is redeemed by the miracle of a touch: "He ahold of my hand has completely

Terrible Doubt" echoes the philosophy of other "Calamus" poems, perhaps most closely "Scented Herbage of My