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constituted true democracy, yet again lauded his poetry for its "bigness and naïvety" and singled out "My
Captain, O my Captain" [sic] as "surely one of the most tender and beautiful poems in any language"
to experience a region that had long been vividly alive in his imagination: "I have found the law of my
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985. Feehan, Michael.
and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad (1854)," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My
My fit is mastering me!"
Ballad (1854)," would be hard to fit into "Song of Myself," and the omission of the slight "Who Learns My
himself the murderous impulse which may precipitate his fits of existential anxiety and sexual guilt: "My
—They retard my book very much" (Correspondence 1:44).
reveals a darker Whitman, suspicious, uncertain, and lonely: "Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my
Leaves contains only six new poems ("Inscription" [later "One's-Self I Sing" and "Small the Theme of My
most recognizable image of the "Ship of State" had been published in the popular 1865–1866 text, "O Captain
My Captain!
poems (five) contained in the 1876 Leaves: four intercalated poems and the title page's "Come, said my
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
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!
of Leaves of Grass, Whitman added the supplementary annexes "Sands at Seventy" (1888) and "Good-Bye my
I Wish to Give My Own View': Some Nineteenth-Century Women's Responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass."
wrestling, boiling-hot days" (1336).Concluding the letter, Whitman calls Emerson "the original true Captain
Whitman's poems, "O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman eventually added four poems: "O Captain! My Captain!
"O Captain!"
The Lincoln poems, particularly "O Captain!
"Damn My Captain," he said, "I'm almost sorry I ever wrote the poem" (With Walt Whitman 2:304).
pieces, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865-1866) and one of his best-known poems, "O Captain
My Captain!" (1865-1866).
Whitman intensely admired Lincoln from the late 1850s onward, remarking at one point, "After my dear,
"Hush'd Be the Camps To-day" and the other Lincoln poems ("Lilacs," "O Captain!
"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 &
the best society of the civilized world all over, are to be only reached and spinally nourish'd (in my
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
Whitman's interaction with the children at a picnic for London's poor: "During the day I lost sight of my
Specimen Days (1882) Whitman says of the region where he was born, "the successive growth-stages of my
The voyage itself appears again and again, in the narrative style of "Old Salt Kossabone" and "O Captain
My Captain!
visit was an important acknowledgment of his work, Whitman in turn publicly acknowledged Longfellow in "My
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
withthelatestincrease.Iamto-day,(May31,1861,)justforty-twoyears old—for I write this introduction on my
To the best of my knowledge, pensive has not received any consideration in Whitman criticism, and yet
Lowell was his bitterest enemy: "'Lowell never even tolerated me as a man: he not only objected to my
at this benefit Lowell is said to have exclaimed, "This has been one of the most impressive hours of my
They were also nearly exact contemporaries, and Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"
(1871 Leaves).In the opening line of the poem Whitman asks for "something specific and perfect for my
In his 1936 autobiography, Masters wrote, "What had enthralled me with Whitman from my days with Anne
& Collect from Rees Welsh after one printing, and later published November Boughs (1888), Good-Bye My
the CBS series Northern Exposure featured disc jockey Chris Stevens reading passages and discussing "my
Robert LeighDavisMemoranda During the War [1875–1876]Memoranda During the War [1875–1876]"My idea is
and who are forever enshrined in his—and civic—memory and as a significant theme of the dirge.In "O Captain
My Captain!"
The president is described as the fallen captain of the ship of state he had steered to victory.
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
liked it, and on 20 April 1884 he wrote to Anne Gilchrist, "I have moved into a little old shanty of my
connections between literature and psychology, as do his two biographies: Melville (1975) and Salem Is My
"Millet is my painter," Whitman said; "he belongs to me: I have written Walt Whitman all over him" (With
He delighted in making "acquaintances among the captains, boatmen, or other characters" (Complete 1201
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Erkkila, Betsy.
He preferred sentimental ballads like "My Mother's Bible," "The Soldier's Farewell," and the "Lament
Her singing, her method, gave the foundation, the start . . . to all my poetic literary efforts" (Prose
Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (hereafter "Lilacs"), "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," and "O Captain
My Captain!" in the years 1884–1904. Gustav Holst produced a "Walt Whitman Overture" in 1899.
PatrickMcGuire"My Boys and Girls" (1844)"My Boys and Girls" (1844)While this sketch first appeared in
"My Boys and Girls" (1844)
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)
Advocating civil disobedience, he declares his independence in thinking and acting: "Let me have my own
of "Passage to India," or for the serene meditations of his old age ("Sands at Seventy"; "Good-Bye my
An interesting change in line 7 appears for the first time in 1881: the words "I take for my love some
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 South! / O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me!"
rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves " ("Mannahatta [My
section 1); in "Song of Myself" he is situated "Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my
Apostrophizing his own soul ("And you O my soul"), the poet's analogical process is similar to Oliver
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)