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whoexplainedthemysteriesoftheuniverse—because“Themost they offer for mankind and eternity [is] less than a spirt of my
“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass
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!
and other customs of the ancient Egyptians, in whose country I have passed the last twenty years of my
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
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).
After the Supper and Talk" can be compared to two other farewell poems, "Good-Bye my Fancy!
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.
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
In 1888, after Alcott's death, Whitman said, "Alcott was always my friend" (With Walt Whitman 1:333)
"History of My Whitman Studies." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (1991): 91–100. Blair, Stanley S.
"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.
bodies and bodies" line the decks; the masts and spars are spotted with "dabs of flesh"; beside the captain's
Sheree L.Gilbert"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your
Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" first appeared in Whitman's separately
"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)
Whitman's own experiences during this visit to the front.The soldier's epitaph—"Bold, cautious, true, and my
The latent meaning submerged within "my loving comrade" as the antithesis of "true," in other words,
"My book and the war are one," Whitman would assert in "To Thee Old Cause" (1871); in "Toilsome" that
the ashes of the soldiers, whose dearness to him is signified by the repetition of the possessive "my
"My Discovery and Exploration of the Whitman Continent (1941–1991)."
On 6 August 1889 O'Dowd commenced a letter to Whitman, addressed as "My Reverend Master," which he never
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
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
GuiyouHuang"Beginning My Studies" (1865)"Beginning My Studies" (1865)This poem first appeared in the
declaration not to become a systematic or aggressive student of philosophy.In theme and tone "Beginning My
"Beginning My Studies" (1865)
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
stuffed canary which in life had brought him much pleasure and which he made the subject of a poem, "My
WALT 1819–1919DEDICATED TO THE DEMOCRATIC IDEALS OFWALT WHITMANBYHORACE TRAUBEL AND FLORA MACDONALD"MY
Early in 1889, Whitman listed Byron and his poetry among those poets and works referred to as "my daily
from Long Island to a house on Front Street, a waterfront area where, as the poet put it in Good-Bye My
letters to Brown say the sight of Brown's face was "welcomer than all," and he refers to Brown as "my
The récherché or ethereal sense, as used in my book, arises probably from it, Calamus presenting the
attachment," concluding "I proceed for all who are or have been young men, / To tell the secret of my
The next poem, "Scented Herbage of My Breast," initially introduces an extraordinarily copious imagery
expose me more than all my other poems."
O pulse of my life! / Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs."
included Two Rivulets, a collection of prose and poetry that Whitman hoped would "set the key-stone to my
He examined his own experience in My Days and Dreams (1890).
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.
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Dougherty, James.
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
Do you think my getting my shirts made so cheaply, or my buying clothes at a low price, has anything
In the 1860 edition he boasts that he will "take for my love some prostitute" ("Enfans d'Adam" number
" poem, which acquired its present title in 1867, was originally called by its first line, "City of my
newspapers but later gathered into Specimen Days & Collect (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My
turning point in his own life, what he later termed "the very centre, circumference, umbilicus, of my
In the poem "To Thee Old Cause" he wrote, "My book and the war are one," and elsewhere he wrote that
In turn, Twain noted, "If I've become a Whitmanite I'm sorry—I never read 40 lines of him in my life"
At the bottom of the recto of the first leaf we find this passage: My Lesson my Have you learned the
to my bare-stript heart, And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my feet.
Part of my purpose in this coda to my exploration of the poet’s creative pro- cess is to take advantage
or “To the Leaven’d Soil they Trod,” Or “Captain! My Captain!”
Le Baron), mystical experience, 9, 36 165, 265n9 “Oh Captain! My Captain!”
in the two volumes are Specimen Days & Collect, November Boughs, and the prose portions of Good-Bye My
My version of "Live Oak" differs from Parker's version in the Fourth Edition of The Norton Anthology
of American Literature (1994) , and Parker disapproves of my version, my title, and my interpretation
My essay first appeared in American Poetry Review months before The Continuing Presence came out, and
In any case, it's the later essay with my version of "Live Oak" that Parker rails against.
Parker is right in saying that I neglected to defend my choice, clearly a flaw in my essay.
volume contains the rest of Collect, all of November Boughs (1888), and the first part of Good-Bye 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)
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
Yours, my dear Mr.
It was the poem Whitman was "almost sorry [he] ever wrote," "0 Captain! My Captain!"
my work.
My Captain!"
11y Captain!"
My father, my uncle, my grand-uncle and the several aunts.
In the first he's the unthreaten ing, desexualized rhymster of "0 Captain! My Captain!"
We must of course have read "0 Captain! My Captain!" in school, and I must have hated it.
Moly and My Sad Captains. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1973. - - .
My Likeness!
His elastic, eclectic "I" inviting conflicts and embracing inconsistencies "gives up" to the reader "my
and let one line of my poems contradict another!"
But a later letter to Rossetti recanted this position: "I cannot and will not consent, of my own volition
, to countenance an expurgated edition of my pieces" (Whitman 942).
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.