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"No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at
"I am not literary, my books are not literature," he proclaimed to Horace Traubel (With Walt Whitman
"The whole drift of my books is to form a new race of fuller & athletic yet unknown characters, men &
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.
Illustrated World in April of 1890 and was included in Whitman's collection of prose and poetry Good-Bye My
from that collection as an annex to the Deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass under the title "Good-Bye my
/ 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.
"Some walk by my side" as equals, "some behind" as followers, "and some embrace my arms or neck" as lovers
put the entire essay together from segments of four previously published essays—"A Backward Glance on My
Own Road," "How 'Leaves of Grass' Was Made," "How I Made a Book," and "My Book and I"—"A Backward Glance
the essay, his approach: "I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my
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
First, I am grateful to my colleagues at Valparaiso University, who encouraged me throughout my work,
lack of the poet’s gift so acutely as when I turn to write of my family.
We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched, My captain lashed fast with
(For 1863 and ’64, see my Memoranda fol- lowing)” (quoted in Myerson, 191).
regularly performed there, bya substitute, during my illness.
," Whitman writes in "Song of Myself"; "Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling, / I
but enter by them to an area of my dwelling" (section 23).BibliographyLindfors, Bernth.
Testament Christ; he sees himself "[w]alking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my
shown, Whitman's language echoes that of biblical writing: creeds and petitions ("I believe in you my
to the Bible can best be summed up in his own expectation of the disciple he seeks: "He most honors 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 . . ."
together in the same top floor bedroom, and when they traveled together Whitman referred to him as "my
one point, he wrote of his gratitude for Stafford's help in his medical recovery, declaring, " you, my
"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
Paul called Christ, Mohammed called Gabriel, Dante called Beatrice, and Whitman called My Soul.Bucke
Swoon" (this poem appeared in only three editions: Leaves of Grass, 1876, which Bucke used; Good-Bye My
Dooryard Bloom'd," as one of his supreme achievements in this mode.Late in life Whitman commented, "My
Similarly, "the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water" (section
beginning of the poem Whitman calls the sights and sounds around him "glories strung like beads on my
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985. Coffman, Stanley K., Jr.
—They retard my book . . ."
As late as 1888 he said of phrenology to Horace Traubel: "I guess most of my friends distrust it—but
In "Song of Myself" the poet asserts: "Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, / My
He characterized him as "my stout, gentlemanly friend, free talker" (356).
The Winding-Up" (a revision of "The End of All"), "We Shall All Rest at Last," "Fame's Vanity," and "My
A Parody," "Death of the Nature-Lover" (revision of "My Departure"), "The Play-Ground," "Ode," "The House
milieu.For thirty-four lines thereafter the persona becomes the ambulatory wound-dresser, moving among "my
bandages, water, and sponge" (section 2), he attends each soldier "with impassive hand, (yet deep in my
For America, autumn implies harvest, bounty, and growth; for Whitman, a time when "my soul is rapt and
originally appeared in the first edition of Leaves (1855): "There Was a Child Went Forth" and "Who Learns My
emerges from his "bower refresh'd with sleep" and urges, "Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my
body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body."
A curious line in the middle of the poem—"The body of my love, the body of the woman I love, the body
Amativeness, and even Animality. . . . the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of life to my
it, in comparison, seem but a mere "mask of materials" or "show of appearance" ("Scented Herbage of My
death as meaning "precisely the same" and as being "folded inseparably together" ("Scented Herbage of My
In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me, / And his arm lay around my
My first instinct about all that Symonds writes is violently reactionary—is strong and brutal for no,
Then the thought intervenes that I maybe do not know all my own meanings" (With Walt Whitman 1:76–77)
several poems in the "Sands at Seventy" cluster attest, notably "As I Sit Writing Here," "Queries to My
six-line poem, first published in the second annex to the 1891 edition of Leaves of Grass, "Good-Bye my
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).
Whitman's "Going Somewhere" was written for her: "My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend, / (Now
," Whitman says farewell to his poetic project ("My songs cease, I abandon them") and announces that
:O how your fingers drowse me,Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my
In his manuscript notebooks he wrote of "the chanted Hymn whose tremendous sentiment shall uncage in my
or 'Lucrezia,' and Auber's 'Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William Tell' and 'Gazza Ladra,' were among my
Whitman commented on the singing of this "strangely overpraised woman," writing that she "never touched my
days in Specimen Days and in an essay, "The Old Bowery," collected in the prose section of Good-Bye My
argument of the earth," a fragmentary but certain knowledge: "that the spirit of God is the brother of my
own," "that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers," "that
trance-like state similar to that he entered in section 5: "Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my
free-verse poem, "'The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete'" (1891) first appeared in the annex "Good-Bye my
In the penultimate line, he defends them strongly: "Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest
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.
In his 1936 autobiography, Masters wrote, "What had enthralled me with Whitman from my days with Anne
WALT 1819–1919DEDICATED TO THE DEMOCRATIC IDEALS OFWALT WHITMANBYHORACE TRAUBEL AND FLORA MACDONALD"MY
An interesting change in line 7 appears for the first time in 1881: the words "I take for my love some
sentences of "To Soar" were transcribed directly from a two-page, unpublished prose fragment entitled "My
Thee, seated coil'd in evil times, my Country, with craft and black dismay—with every meanness, treason
—are but parts of the Venture which my Poems entirely are. (11) It is this type of indirection that
Specimen Days (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) are important Whitman sources
Whitman often commented upon the genius of Booth and called him "one of the grandest revelations of my
Fittingly, 1892, the year of Whitman's death, witnessed the poem "Good-Bye my Fancy!
Against a backdrop of fluctuation, a continuity in Whitman's thought emerges, and with "Good-Bye my Fancy
" poem, which acquired its present title in 1867, was originally called by its first line, "City of my
Within my bosom reside two opposing elements" (Bergman 11).
After the Supper and Talk" can be compared to two other farewell poems, "Good-Bye my Fancy!
letters to Brown say the sight of Brown's face was "welcomer than all," and he refers to Brown as "my
connection with Whitman, both formally ("Let me join you again this morning, Walt Whitman, . . . even now my
connections between literature and psychology, as do his two biographies: Melville (1975) and Salem Is My
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Chase, Richard.
to experience a region that had long been vividly alive in his imagination: "I have found the law of my
"Softly I lay my right hand upon you," he proclaims as he prepares the appointed one for a celestial
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.
aplomb in the midst of irrational things,Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,Finding my
less important than I thought,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Me wherever my