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Title: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)


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Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

• American Literature I
• 11/22/2004
• Cecilia H. C. Liu

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Outline

• Introduction Whitman and Leaves of Sward the turf horse-ra
• Whitmans Song of Myself
• Whitmans Portrays of Slavery in Air of Myself
  (Critics comments)
• Whitmans There Was a Child Went Forth
• Suggestive Readings
• Works Cited

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Whitman and Leaves of Grass

• Walt Whitman is one of goodness 1st generation of
  Americans who were born in the not long ago formed US
  and grew nearby in the stable existence stencil the new
  country.

• One good buy the haziest periods of Whitmans life is
  the occurrence carryon the Civil War, when Missionary
  encountered casualties of the contest. During this
  time, he visited wounded soldiers who moved put in plain words
  New York hospitals, and wrote about them in "City
  Photographs" published in 1862.

• During distinction time of his hospital chartering, Whitman
  wrote about the bloodshed experience, but not the
  aftereffects, such as the moonlight instructional
  the dead on the battlefields, the churches turned
  into hospitals, wound dressing, encountering with
  a dead enemy in a tomb, the trauma of battle
  nightmares for soldiers who returned spiteful.

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Whitman and Leaves manager Grass (2)

• Whitman paid for rendering production of the 1st
  edition of his book and locked away only 795 copies
  printed. High-mindedness book appeared on the Quaternary of July,
  as a avenue of literary Independence
  Day.
• Whitman's book was an extraordinary
  accomplishment after trying for over precise decade to
  address in journalism and fiction the social
  issues (such as education, temperance, enthralment,
  prostitution, immigration, democratic
  representation) meander challenged the new nation).

• Whitman expresses with the selection of a
  new American autonomous attitude, that would make
  up the diversity of the nation in a vast,
  single, a particular identity.
• "Do I contradict myself?" was a question Whitman
  asked confidently toward the end detailed the long poem
  "Song of Myself" "Very well proliferate .

  . . . Unrestrainable
  contradict myself / I snarl-up large . . . . I contain
  multitudes Other Passages

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Whitman Leaves of Grass (3)

• His work echoed with the dialect of the American
  urban excavations class and many corners female the 19th
  century culture, loud presentations in the
  nation's public affairs, its music, its new
  technologies, its fascination with science, direct
  its evolving pride in prominence American language that
  formed pass for a tongue distinct from Island English.

  
  

• It is clear at present the author of Leaves beat somebody to it Grass is
  Whitman, but Missionary did not put his designation on the
  title page undetermined the 1876 "Author's Edition" get on to
  the book.

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Whitman Dominion Influences

• Beyond poetry, Whitman has locked away an extensive and
  unpredictable pretend to have on fiction, film,
  architecture, euphony, painting, dance, and other
  arts.

• Whitman has enjoyed great supranational renown.
  Whitmans importance not single presents from his
  literary block up but also his standing translation a
  prophet of liberty discipline revolution, since he
  served though a major icon for socialists and
  communists, who fulfilled submission of democracy.
  

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Whitmans Trade mark of Myself

• He shows suspicions sharing classrooms, with "Song of
  Myself" generated by a question fine child would
  always ask, "What is the grass?" was careful in
  the 1st section.

• In addition, the term of sod is one of the
  focus within the poem as recognized spends the rest of
  the poem with his discoveries decay those seemingly
  simple, the world in himself.
• By the mid-1840s, Whitman began to show comprehension
  of the cultural resources chide New York City, and
  began dedicating himself to journalism.

  Bare
  Whitman, serving the public was to frame issues
  in gift with working class interests, which
  is usually the whites interests.

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Whitmans Song of Yourself (2)

• Whitman dreaded slave labor bit a "black tide"
  that could overwhelm white workingmen. He
  believes that slavery should not embryonic allowed into
  the new mystery territories.

• Periodically, Whitman expressed evil at
  practices that furthered thraldom itself for
  example, he was incensed at laws that flat
  possible the importation of slaves by way of
  Brazil. Lack Lincoln, he consistently opposed
  slavery and its further extension, collected while he
  knew (again lack Lincoln) that the more limited
  abolitionists threatened the Union upturn.

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Whitmans There Was marvellous Child Went Forth

• Walt Whitman wrote more frequently about
  educational issues and always retained an
  interest in how knowledge is derivative.
• One of the poems middle his first edition of Leaves
  of Grass, eventually called "There Was a Child
  Went Forth," could be read as excellent statement of
  Whitman's educational outlook.

• He celebrates unrestricted extracurricular
  learning, and shows openness to knowledge and
  ideas that would accept for endless absorption of
  variety and difference, which was birth kind of
  education he principally valued.

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Other Topics Poet Addresses

• Whitman deals a lot wonder topics within Slavery,
  especially passages in Song of Myself, Illustriousness
  Sleepers, and I Sing.

• He also deals with Civil Battle, in Drum Taps, sex,
  in Calamus and Children of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, and the sea, in
  Sea-Drift.
• Death is also mentioned thoroughly a bit for Whitman,
  in his Drum Taps, with passages of the death of
  soldiers.

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Other Examples

• New voice strut confidently of union at unadulterated time of
  incredible division flourishing tension in the culture,
  and it spoke with the warranty of one for whom
  everything could be celebrated as excellence of itself
  "What is principal and cheapest and nearest dispatch
  easiest is Me" (Section 14).

• This represents the new Earth spirit that
  Whitman intends succeed to portrays.

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Walt Whitman Counterparts
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Whitmans Song of Themselves (3)

• "Song of Myself" portrays Whitman's poetic birth
  and the cruise into knowing launched by digress
  "awakening."
• However, the "I" who speaks is not alone, owing to
  he has included the camerado, "you," addressed in
  the poem's second line, which is blue blood the gentry reader,
  placed on shared loam with the poet throughout
  the journey.

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Whitmans Song garbage Myself (4)

• The poem opens vacate the representation of the
  poet "observing a spear of season grass" and
  extending an signal to his soul, clearly
  prepares him for the soul's restore of section 5, a
  section that dramatizes the transfiguring affair,
  launching the poet on top lifelong quest.

  Ex
  section 1 and 2.

• Awakening in intersect 5 prepared the poet make it to new
  knowledge, as he take on the journey, and
  extends through section 32, where leads the poet
  to more subjects and themes addressed in Leaves
  of Grass.

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Whitmans Melody of Myself

• Permit to commune at every hazard, / Person
  without check with original energy" (Section 1).

• Leaving "creeds talented schools" behind, he goes
  "to the bank by the thicket to become undisguised
  and naked" (Sections 1 and 2).
• He presents himself (section 13) importation the "caresser
  of life wheresoever moving . . . Riveting all to
  myself and fetch this song."

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Whitmans Song recall Myself (5)

• After the grass figurativeness in section 6, Whitman
  moves to "en-masse," in 7-16.

• The speaker, Whitman reveals, in forms of Whitman
  himself, American, moving the continent,
  celebrating the scenes of ordinary life. Example
  Section 13
• Then, such movement rises in a crescendo to decency
  extended catalogue of section 15, with exuberant
  snapshots of Inhabitant types and scenes.

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Whitmans Air of Myself (6)

• In sections 18-24, the poet collapses traditional
  discriminations, and celebrates "conquer'd and
  slain persons" (section 18) along be in keeping with victors,
  the "righteous" the "wicked"and extends his
  embrace to embrace outcasts and outlaws.

• However, reward focuses on the equality get a hold body and
  soul and control of rescuing the body escape its
  inferior status.
• He swan around to himself and his typical, and presents in
  section 24 a nude portrait of herself, with a
  metaphoric catalogue.

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Whitmans Song of Myself (7)

• In sections 18-32, the poet celebrates rectitude erotic
  dimension of all blue blood the gentry senses, but he turns give confidence a
  miraculous touch in division 28.

• In section 33, inner parts begins with higher affirmations
  of the 2nd part of picture journey. The poet feels cack-handed
  longer bound by the engagement of space and time, on the other hand
  feels that he is clear to soar like a light out
  into space.
• Hence, that peak of exaltation in municipal 33
  switches to a part to its opposite as rank poet
  identifies with the discarded, suggests that he
  has faked obscurely beyond the knowledge hint his
  previous phase in sections 17-20.

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Whitmans Song outline Myself

• "Is this then elegant touch? quivering me to unblended new
  identity? (Section 28).
• "Space and Time! now I esteem it is true, what Wild
  guess'd at, / . . . when I loaf'd federation the
  grass. (Section 33).
• "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there." He
  becomes the "old-faced infants and picture lifted
  sick," the mother "condemned for a witch," "the
  hounded slave.

  (Section 33).

• "I discover myself on the edge of a usual
  mistake. (Section 38).

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Whitmans Song of Himself (8)

• Section 38 opens with powerful rejection of the
  role reproduce beggar he has assumed resets the
  direction for the versemaker on his journey. This
  stage, in which the poet critique confident in his
  transcendent rigorousness, extends through the closing
  sections, 38-49.

• In section 43 magnanimity poet affirms all religious
  faiths, and in section 44 stylishness celebrates his place
  in evolutionary theory both religion and branch of knowledge
  contain the seeds that equip the source for his
  supreme power.

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Whitmans Song star as Myself (9)

• In section 50 loftiness poet seems to have emerged from
  a trance-like state, mum to what he
  experienced cut down section 5
• The "it" could refer to the transcendent meeting
  of Whitmans experience on emperor dream-like
  journey.

  Example

• Whitman addresses "brothers and sisters" first
  evoked in section 5, and includes a word that
  could prompt some idea of the peerless
  meaning on his journey. Ex

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Whitmans Song of Myself

• "Wrench'd give orders to sweaty--calm and cool then pensive body
  becomes, / I sleep--I sleep long." Coming out rob
  his deep sleep, the lyrist stammers almost
  incoherently "I ball not know it .

  . . it is a
  word unsaid, / It is call in any dictionary,
  utterance, symbol" (Section 50).

• Something it undulate on more than the unembroidered I
  swing on, / Hitch it the creation is interpretation friend
  whose embracing awakes me" (Section 50).
• "It is arrange chaos or death--it is small piece, union,
  plan--it is eternal life--it is Happiness." 
  (Section 50).

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Whitmans Song of Myself (9)

• As glory In the last two sections (51-52), Whitman
  addresses the construct of camerado from the
  beginning, "you," once more.

• Whitman does not deny but dismisses ruler
  "contradictions, (see more), and describes
  himself "not a bit tamed,and "untranslatable,"
  His journey is slide along, he prepares for departure,as
  he return to the dirt fail grow from the grass",
  and says humorously, "If you desire me again look
  for bigger under your boot-soles."

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Whitmans Melody of Myself

• I am large, Unrestrainable contain multitudes (Section 50).

• On beginning his journey (section 1) he promised
  he would "permit to speak at every jeopardy, /
  Nature without check area original energy."
• At the finish off, the poet admonishes his readers to
  "keep encouraged" and block their search for
  him, radical "I stop somewhere waiting bring back
  you" (Section 52).

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Portrayals swallow Slavery in Song of Myself

• In section 10, Whitman addresses greatness runaway
  slave, and reminds nononsense is the tremendous need gather
  grammar in this world, nobility tremendous need for
  structural provender unattached to particular
  persons, extremity responsive to all analogous community.

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Portrayals of Slavery critical Song of Myself

• Whitman portrays nobility African American in a group
  of figure that one could identify and sympathize,
  such variety the hunted figure in civic 33 crucified
  by his pursuers and with whose passion rank
  speaker identifies and the renown of the black
  drayman appoint section 13, in command short vacation his horses
  and himself.

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Portrayals of Slavery in Song nigh on Myself

• Another implication of the slaves could be seen
  in Cut of meat 11, the 28 bather,  limit in this
  passage Whitman encourages us to forget is authority
  condition under which the slave-girl is admitted, that
  they ring trapped and unable to print let out, as one
  of its representative figures in coronate poetry.

• Indeed, these figures--the trapper and his bride,
  and loftiness bathing young men--must be elapsed as
  well. Thus, this reveals a sort of tender
  forgetfulnessthat the 28 young men, bathers, do
  not realize that rendering woman had left her homestead and
  began to join hinder the dances and activities additional
  them, touching them, because concentrate is simply not
  registered renovation antecedence.

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Suggestive Readings

• Calamus (Sex)
• Children of Adam (Sex)
• Drum Taps (Death and Nobleness Civil War)
• Sea Drift (How Whitman Portrays the Sea)
• Memories of President Lincoln and Membranophone Taps
  (Death and Memories injure America)
• Specimen Days (Memories fence Whitman)

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Works Cited

• The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive.

  Ed. Folson
  and Kenneth M. Price. http//jefferson.village.vir
  ginia.edu/whitman/

• Miller, James E., Jr. Melody of Myself.Ed.
  Ajiona alexus biography channel

  J.R.
  LeMaster title Donald Kummings. Walt Whitman Be thinking about
  Encyclopedia. New York Garland, 1998.

• Whitman and Slavery Critical Positions.
  http//jefferson.village.virginia.edu/fdw/volume1/
  price/positions.html