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& Collect from Rees Welsh after one printing, and later published November Boughs (1888), Good-Bye My
and other customs of the ancient Egyptians, in whose country I have passed the last twenty years of my
She is an unnamed fourteen-year-old in his story "My Boys and Girls" (1844) and is presented as the sweet
"My Discovery and Exploration of the Whitman Continent (1941–1991)."
first person, the poem begins with an apostrophe to the painter, "I...enter lists with thee, claiming my
On the boat I had my hands full. One poor fellow died going up."
the hospitals, Whitman dolefully observed: Looking from any eminence and studying the topography in my
"There comes that odious Walt Whitman to talk evil and unbelief to my boys," she wrote in a letter to
"I think I would rather see the evil one himself—at least if he had horns and hoofs—in my ward.
"He took a fancy to my fever boy, and would watch with him sometimes half the night.
In turn, Twain noted, "If I've become a Whitmanite I'm sorry—I never read 40 lines of him in my life"
On the minus side, however, Pound long felt that Whitman, although he was "to my fatherland . . . what
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. Ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking, 1958.
the ashes of the soldiers, whose dearness to him is signified by the repetition of the possessive "my
Whitman addresses the dead as "my soldiers" as if he himself embodies all America, thus expressing national
section 1); in "Song of Myself" he is situated "Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my
The longer version, with the new title "Small the Theme of My Chant," reappeared in the final, 1891–1892
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Chari, V.K.
dur- ing my absence.
I have lost my wits . . . .
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
roof, my doors, my hearth and home How sweet again to see the light and thee!
gab and my loitering.”
appreciate the natural Man and freeing me from much [sic] theological or conventional preconceptions due to my
Sin ceased to dominate my view of life..." (qtd. in Hancock 48).
fruitlessly, the boy questions also only to hear the ocean's final assertion of death, and the man notes "My
five times and say blankly, " But my mate no more, no more with me!
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985. Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.
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?"
He examined his own experience in My Days and Dreams (1890).
Hannah Whitman appears in Whitman's story "My Boys and Girls" (1844) as a fair and delicate youth.
Andrew appears in an early Whitman prose work, "My Boys and Girls," published in The Rover (20 April
declaring that Sawyer had his love "in life and death forever" and assuring the young soldier that "my
panorama the skepticism of "Calamus" number 7, and thus joins "To a Certain Civilian" and "As I Lay with My
My Life. London: Victor Gollancz, 1928.Miller, James E., Jr. A Critical Guide to "Leaves of Grass."
In a line added in 1860 Whitman speaks of the burden of speech as "the secret of my nights and days,"
(1871 Leaves).In the opening line of the poem Whitman asks for "something specific and perfect for my
beginning he announces, "Let me bring this to this a close," and later he mocks, "Let him who is without my
implicit in the lexical conversion of "leaves" of grass into knife-like "blades" in "Scented Herbage of My
experts in native languages had contested his definition of "Yonnondio," but he stood firm: "I am sure of my
"If I worship one thing more than another," he proclaims, "it shall be the spread of my own body" ("Song
"Whitman's Image of Voice: To the Tally of my Soul." Walt Whitman. Modern Critical Views. Ed.
[section 14] and "See, steamers steaming through my poems," etc.
other poems will remind the reader of the declaration that "I am myself just as much evil as good, and my
My thanks also go to my colleagues at the University of Freiburg for sharing their ideas and offering
Finally, my love and gratitude go to my father, Heinz Gerhardt, for sharing his fascination with other
gab and my loitering” (LG 77).
Ah my silvery beauty – ah my woolly white and crimson!” (“Delicate Cluster”).
O I cruise my old cruise again!
turning point in his own life, what he later termed "the very centre, circumference, umbilicus, of my
"History of My Whitman Studies." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (1991): 91–100. Blair, Stanley S.
"Millet is my painter," Whitman said; "he belongs to me: I have written Walt Whitman all over him" (With
Ships at Sea," Whitman calls his book "not a reminiscence of the land alone" but a "lone bark" bearing "my
that will become the envy of the world.Whitman sees these productive fields as "the true arenas of my
In Specimen Days Whitman summed up the impact of the West: "I have found the law of my own poems" (Specimen
in contrast to the frustration of the preceding section: the speaker accepting the "souse upon me of my
Revolutionary War but the necessity for union affirmed by the recently concluded American Civil War; "my
His elastic, eclectic "I" inviting conflicts and embracing inconsistencies "gives up" to the reader "my
and let one line of my poems contradict another!"
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
visit was an important acknowledgment of his work, Whitman in turn publicly acknowledged Longfellow in "My
and literary critic with whom she had just initiated a crucial correspondence, "that being foreign to my
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Dougherty, James.
Advocating civil disobedience, he declares his independence in thinking and acting: "Let me have my own
"[u]nfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my
Doyle recalled, "We were familiar at once—I put my hand on his knee—we understood . . .
soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way" (Whitman 281).
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman . Boston: Beacon, 1985. Coffman, Stanley K., Jr.
body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body."
He examined his own experience in My Days and Dreams (1890).
liked it, and on 20 April 1884 he wrote to Anne Gilchrist, "I have moved into a little old shanty of my
In 1888, after Alcott's death, Whitman said, "Alcott was always my friend" (With Walt Whitman 1:333)