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She married a sea captain named Davis, but was soon widowed.
In the afterlife, the soul's immaterial body, "transcending my senses and flesh . . . finally loves,
the third (1860) edition, "Starting from Paumanok," announced Whitman's intention to "make poems of my
body and of mortality . . . of my soul and of immortality" (section 6).
In "Scented Herbage of My Breast" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" the poet searches for words
with minor masterpieces of affecting readiness for death: "After the Supper and Talk" and "Good-Bye my
Among these poems are "O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman's delivery moved many members of the audience to tears, and he concluded with a reading of his "O Captain
My Captain!" Whitman also delivered the Lincoln lecture in Boston in 1881.
In "Memoranda" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Whitman reports delivering the Lincoln lecture for the last
first person, the poem begins with an apostrophe to the painter, "I...enter lists with thee, claiming my
I saw before me, sitting on the counter, a handsome, burly man, heavily built, and not looking, to my
me as more of a man, more of a democratic man, than the tallest of Whitman's roughs; to the eye of my
love had no bounds—all that my natural fastidiousness and cautious reserve kept from others I poured
Whitman might say to him "'od's my life, Saint Thomas, I am Snug the joiner & no lion, in this poem,
I, for my part, am no believer in the sacredness of the marriage ceremony, can imagine a perfect pure
He argued vehemently that "a new Literature," and especially "a new Poetry, are to be, in my opinion,
statement near the beginning that describes it as dialectical: "I feel the parts harmoniously blended in my
and literary critic with whom she had just initiated a crucial correspondence, "that being foreign to my
Whitman addresses the dead as "my soldiers" as if he himself embodies all America, thus expressing national
He characterized him as "my stout, gentlemanly friend, free talker" (356).
My Bondage and My Freedom. 1855. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987. ———.
Doyle recalled, "We were familiar at once—I put my hand on his knee—we understood . . .
"Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all, / Faces, varieties, postures
" sequence: "Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, / But soon my
fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself, / To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or
"Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, / Straight and swift to my wounded I go."
Those three years I consider the greatest privilege and satisfaction . . . the most profound lesson of my
Some of the poems—"O Captain! My Captain!"
"O Captain! My Captain!"
connection with Whitman, both formally ("Let me join you again this morning, Walt Whitman, . . . even now my
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)
By the Roadside," "Autumn Rivulets," "From Noon to Starry Night," "Sands at Seventy," and "Good-Bye my
it harmed me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were not indispensable to my
equality was also based on the teaching of Christ as he had seen it practiced by the Quakers: "I wear my
to the President at his levee" and "Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field" ("Song
In opposition to Carlyle's hero-worship he offered in 1871 a "worship new" of "captains, voyagers, explorers
I took my agn?
My 146 Captain!"
my lands!
My Captain!"
My Captain!
/ O I will put my motto over it, as it is over the top of this song!" (Whitman, Blue Book 1:188).
He publicly acknowledged Longfellow and recorded their second encounter in "My Tribute to Four Poets.
dog's snout" (section 2), a "milk-nosed maggot" (section 2), and other loathsome visages—that they are "my
Within my bosom reside two opposing elements" (Bergman 11).
Acknowledging that the "death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on," "Weave in, My Hardy Life
There is something in my nature furtive like an old hen!
of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirection I seek for my own use
I wish to see my benefactor, & have felt much like striking my tasks, & visiting New York to pay my respects
Among the pilots are some of my particular friends—when I see them up in the pilot house on my way to
, and exemplify it," was my candid response.
Whitman's "Going Somewhere" was written for her: "My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend, / (Now
panorama the skepticism of "Calamus" number 7, and thus joins "To a Certain Civilian" and "As I Lay with My
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)
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)
several poems in the "Sands at Seventy" cluster attest, notably "As I Sit Writing Here," "Queries to My
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.
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
mentions Lincoln at all till the end, when the poet refers to him as "the sweetest, wisest soul of all my
in 1882: "But first I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my
heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.
look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, / You shall not look through my
This leads in particular to cosmic visions in which dimensions have no value: "My ties and ballasts leave
me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps, / I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents . . ."
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Chase, Richard.
My Life. London: Victor Gollancz, 1928.Miller, James E., Jr. A Critical Guide to "Leaves of Grass."
pressing home . . . of all that could be said against that part (and a main part) in the construction of my
ever more complete or convincing, I could never hear the points better put—and then I felt down in my
soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way" (Whitman 281).
that when he spoke of immortality he meant "identity—the survival of the personal soul—your survival, my
God, love, and death become virtually synonymous.The second entry in "Calamus," "Scented Herbage of My
In a line added in 1860 Whitman speaks of the burden of speech as "the secret of my nights and days,"
encompass wider and wider realms of experience: "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" (section 5).These mythic progenitors
you seem to look for something at my hands, / Say, old top-knot, what do you want?"
his introduction to the first German edition of Leaves in 1889, he claimed that "I did not only have my
own country in mind when composing my work.
My observations appear as footnotes.
That is not my goal; nor is it my goal to deal with, for example, the historical issues of Whitman’s,
Also, he is overly fond of O Captain! My Captain!
“O Captain! My Captain!” (Vol.
My Captain!”
When Whitman egged him to comment on “My Captain” (a poem Whitman himself several times ridiculed in
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Whitmanletsfly:“I’mhonestwhenIsay,damn‘MyCaptain’andallthe ‘My Captains’ in my book!
”thatturnedthepoetagainstit:“In some cases, as in Whitman’s ‘O Captain, My Captain,’ the high-water mark
My Captain!
Two of his poems ("O Captain! My Captain!"
Finally, the newspaper Ha'arets (11 October 95) printed Whitman's poem on Lincoln's assassination, "O Captain
My Captain!," as a tribute to Yitzhak Rabin's memory after his assassination.
"What is Yours is Mine, My Father: On One Poem by Walt Whitman."
. . and I split off with the radicals, which led to rows with the boss and 'the party,' and I lost my
My ties and ballasts leave me . . ." ("Song of Myself," section 33).
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. Ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking, 1958.
Purport" (1891)First published in the last section of Leaves of Grass supervised by the author ("Good-Bye my
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.