The Portable Walt WhitmanPenguin, 30 դեկ, 2003 թ. - 608 էջ A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories |
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... Song of Myself” is a clear echo of this movement.) Halls of science sprang up in other cities besides New York; lectures were given in place of sermons, and followers were encouraged to regard each other as fellows among the faithful ...
... Song of Myself.” “And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God.” Unlike Milton or Wordsworth, he does not undertake to justify God's ways to man; nothing needs justification, evil included. Far from propagating morality, Whitman sees ...
... Song of Myself”: Divine I am inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from; The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer, This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds. Are these lines religious? Or ...
... Song of Myself”: I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased to the other. The next few lines address the soul as a lover—physical, even unmistakably sexual (“you settled your head ...
... Song of Myself,” “quivering me to a new identity”? In Whitman, sex comes to be seen in a new way: as sexuality, a fundamental human capacity. He referred to his poems on this topic, especially “I Sing the Body Electric,” as his ...
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