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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."
flow of a stream gone brown with clay and sediment, he could say to himself, "I have found the law of my
Whitman's "Going Somewhere" was written for her: "My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend, / (Now
free-verse poem, "'The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete'" (1891) first appeared in the annex "Good-Bye my
Apostrophizing his own soul ("And you O my soul"), the poet's analogical process is similar to Oliver
implies that the only way the train can join the dialogue of the recitative is through him ("Roll through my
—They retard my book very much" (Correspondence 1:44).
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
dog's snout" (section 2), a "milk-nosed maggot" (section 2), and other loathsome visages—that they are "my
I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines . . . my own master total and absolute" (section
"[u]nfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my
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
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).
"Millet is my painter," Whitman said; "he belongs to me: I have written Walt Whitman all over him" (With
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
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 . . ."
knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth" and knew that the "spirit of God is the brother of my
I took my agn?
My 146 Captain!"
my lands!
My Captain!"
My Captain!
Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
Captain and all the My Captains in my book!
“I felt my life with both my hands” (Fr 357). 25.
, My Captain,” 18, Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 57, 95 233n29; “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Wolosky, Shira, 30
After the Supper and Talk" can be compared to two other farewell poems, "Good-Bye my Fancy!
By the Roadside," "Autumn Rivulets," "From Noon to Starry Night," "Sands at Seventy," and "Good-Bye my
several poems in the "Sands at Seventy" cluster attest, notably "As I Sit Writing Here," "Queries to My
mentions Lincoln at all till the end, when the poet refers to him as "the sweetest, wisest soul of all my
Purport" (1891)First published in the last section of Leaves of Grass supervised by the author ("Good-Bye my
beginning he announces, "Let me bring this to this a close," and later he mocks, "Let him who is without my
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."
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
In the penultimate line, he defends them strongly: "Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest
the best society of the civilized world all over, are to be only reached and spinally nourish'd (in my
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.
newspapers but later gathered into Specimen Days & Collect (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My
For instance, in section 35 of "Song of Myself," Whitman recounts a tale involving Amy's father, Captain
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
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!
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"
In My Whitman (1966) Chukovsky defines Whitman's unique visionary attribute as a continual awareness
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985. Feehan, Michael.
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Holloway, Emory.
bodies and bodies" line the decks; the masts and spars are spotted with "dabs of flesh"; beside the captain's
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
that Bucke and others gathered to hear Whitman's friend Weda Cook, a young Camden singer, sing "O Captain
My Captain!"
"My Summer With Walt Whitman, 1887." In Re Walt Whitman. Ed. Horace L.
In turn, Twain noted, "If I've become a Whitmanite I'm sorry—I never read 40 lines of him in my life"
In his 1936 autobiography, Masters wrote, "What had enthralled me with Whitman from my days with Anne
the CBS series Northern Exposure featured disc jockey Chris Stevens reading passages and discussing "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's interaction with the children at a picnic for London's poor: "During the day I lost sight of my
of materials" for the "real reality" that lurks behind a "show of appearance" ("Scented Herbage of My
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Dougherty, James.
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)