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His elastic, eclectic "I" inviting conflicts and embracing inconsistencies "gives up" to the reader "my
and let one line of my poems contradict another!"
1904–1973), telluric and epic poet of America and of the people, declares, "I hold [Whitman] to be my
—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
"Song of Myself" the persona's freeing himself of "ties and ballasts" and "skirt[ing] the sierras, my
statement near the beginning that describes it as dialectical: "I feel the parts harmoniously blended in my
his remarks to others of how it was to live with Louisa and George: "[I] have for three years, during my
as at an inn—and the whole affair in precisely the same business spirit" (Correspondence 3:47), and "My
the morning, & keeps me a good bed and room—all of which is very acceptable—(then, for a fellow of my
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)
and other customs of the ancient Egyptians, in whose country I have passed the last twenty years of my
My fit is mastering me!”
I put on my coat and hat.”
And I kept writing my own poetry.
My brothers and my sisters of this New World, we remember that, as Whitman said, “I do not trouble my
“You know,” she said, “I didn’t know anything about him at that time.We had read ‘O Captain, My Captain
My Captain!” and then a review of Drum-Taps.
“O Captain! My Captain!”
In 1889, he told Traubel, “It’s My Captain again: always My Cap- tain: the school readers have got along
I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea, I will not touch my flesh to the
29, 75–76, 109–10, 159–61, 195; and My Captain!”
soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" (section 1).The second, related
knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,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,And that all the men ever born are also
my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,And that a kelson of the creation is love,And limitless
the 1881 edition are definitive, the annexes that appear after 1881—"Sands at Seventy" and "Good-Bye my
excellent companionship made my Kluge tenure one of the most generative times of my creative life.
reader, and my most fiery critic.
to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. 142 Whitman
I had to give up my health for it—my body— the vitality of my physical self. . . . What did I get?
O my soldiers twain! O my veterans, passing to burial! 80 What I have I also give you.
rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves " ("Mannahatta [My
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
Whitman’s famous rhymed dirge for Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!
my Captain!
My Captain!” An unsigned review in The Inde - pendent in 1865 mused that “O Captain!”
My Captain!,” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” 15.
My Captain!
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
what he had recently described in "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" as his program to "exploit [my
The dominant themes in the two annexes, "Sands and Seventy" and Good-Bye my Fancy," as well as in "Old
Speaking to Horace Traubel about their subject matter, Whitman said, "Of my personal ailments, of sickness
This questioning mood may be found in "Queries to my Seventieth Year," published about a month before
Still the lingering sparse leaves are, he says, "my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest, / The
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)
First Annex" (the Second Annex contains poems from a previously published miscellany entitled Good-Bye My
Talking to Traubel about the subject matter of these poems, Whitman said, "Of my personal ailments, of
"Queries to My Seventieth Year" reveals some of the ambiguous feelings he has about the year to come.
In "As I Sit Writing Here" he writes, "Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
/ Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui, / May filter in my daily songs
had strong reservations about it, and Whitman later referred to it as "the horrible dismemberment of my
implicit in the lexical conversion of "leaves" of grass into knife-like "blades" in "Scented Herbage of My
She married a sea captain named Davis, but was soon widowed.
Ferry" in her novel Alexander's Bridge (1912), to Whitman's doctrine of the "open road" in her novel My
"The Doctrine of the Open Road in My Ántonia." Approaches to Teaching Cather's "My Ántonia." Ed.
included Two Rivulets, a collection of prose and poetry that Whitman hoped would "set the key-stone to my
liked it, and on 20 April 1884 he wrote to Anne Gilchrist, "I have moved into a little old shanty of my
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
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
"Some walk by my side" as equals, "some behind" as followers, "and some embrace my arms or neck" as lovers
On the minus side, however, Pound long felt that Whitman, although he was "to my fatherland . . . what
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
He characterized him as "my stout, gentlemanly friend, free talker" (356).
to experience a region that had long been vividly alive in his imagination: "I have found the law of my
What begins as a statement of equality between two opposites, "I believe in you my soul, the other I
This idea supports the fluid identity of a speaker who in section 16 "resist[s] any thing better than my
idea of romantic nature philosophy, that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: "Before I was born out of my
mother generations guided me, / My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it."
/ Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling, / I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling
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!
at all my notions.
My crime.
All worlds are my worlds. All advances are my advances.
My Captain!”
My hands, my limbs grow nerveless, My brain feels rack’d, bewilder’d, Let the old timbers part, I will
You know my motto: "Better than to stand to sit, better than to sit to lie, Better than to dream to sleep
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
Only late in life could Whitman acknowledge, "As I get older, and latent traits come out, I see my father's
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)
the ashes of the soldiers, whose dearness to him is signified by the repetition of the possessive "my
Complete in body and dilate in spirit, / Be thou my God" ("Gods") or when in the 1855 version of "Song
of Myself" he called God "a loving bedfellow [who] sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep
I Wish to Give My Own View': Some Nineteenth-Century Women's Responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass."
visit was an important acknowledgment of his work, Whitman in turn publicly acknowledged Longfellow in "My
man who tenderly nursed the wounded Union soldiers and as tenderly sung the dirge of their great 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.
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.
wrestling, boiling-hot days" (1336).Concluding the letter, Whitman calls Emerson "the original true Captain
regulations, to the beach, where the speaker bathes in the sea and watches the sun rise and thinks how "my
dear friend my lover was on his way coming."
Townsend Trowbridge left a deft and important portrait of their relationship in his autobiography, My
In My Own Story Trowbridge relates how he first came across excerpts of Leaves of Grass while staying
accepted me on general principles and has never so far as I know revised his original declaration in my
little scholarship exists which examines Whitman's influence on Trowbridge but surely poems such as "My
My Own Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. ———. The Poetical Works of John Townsend Trowbridge.
section 1); in "Song of Myself" he is situated "Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my