'Leaves of Grass' Doesn't Mean What You Think Despite having left school at age 11 only to go on to become one of the nation’s greatest poets, Whitman didn’t believe that an uneducated Englishman of non-noble birth could have created such estimable plays.Ģ. Questions about Shakespeare authorship have circulated for hundreds of years and will no doubt continue to do so for some time, but that doesn’t make Whitman’s views any less ironic. He Didn't Believe That Shakespeare Wrote His Plays Here are nine interesting facts about Whitman and his magnum opus.
His most famous work, Leaves of Grass (1855), which was conceived of as a sort of American epic in the tradition of Homer and Dante, remains one of the most well-known, well-loved, and enduring works of poetry in the canon. Walt Whitman is generally considered, along with Emily Dickinson, to be one of the most important American Poets. Interested in learning more about Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass? Read on! Nine Interesting Facts about Walt Whitman I moisten the roots of all that has grown.” My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait, “What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?Įvil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, I will effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.”ġ0. “I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, “And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.”ĩ. (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)”Ĩ. “And as to you Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.”ħ. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, “You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”Ħ. “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, “I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”ĥ. I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.”Ĥ. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself,Īnd whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,Īnd if each and all be aware I sit content. Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land.” Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know, “Not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you. Like the work as a whole, “Song of Myself” underwent many revisions throughout the years before becoming the poem now considered one of the most influential pieces of American poetry.Ģ. Included in Leaves of Grass, “Song of Myself” is written in Whitman’s usual free verse and simple language, appealing to a vast audience. Whitman spent much of his professional career creating and changing his work, resulting in vastly altered editions being printed. First published in 1855, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was a continuous labor.
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