Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
66 PA RT O N E deploring the state of American literature—“Its costumes and jewelry prove how little it knows Nature.... it show ...
ADAMIC WALT WHITMAN 67 Titanic, inhuman Nature” on Maine ’s Mount Katahdin, or the Algonquin ver- sion he preferred, Ktaadn, “pr ...
68 PA RT O N E than a nobler Ralph Waldo, Henry David, Henry Wadsworth, along with Wil- liam Cullen Bryant and John Greenleaf Wh ...
ADAMIC WALT WHITMAN 69 And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the father-stuff, And of the rights of the ...
70 PA RT O N E Sea,” she wrote, but “just the weight of God.” She ’d have backed “This head more than churches,” but the rest wa ...
ADAMIC WALT WHITMAN 71 Whitman was never tarred and feathered, but in Washington, having tended gently to Civil War wounded from ...
72 PA RT O N E Except for “Lord” and “God,” “Song of Myself ” could be thrilling at nature ’s force. What does Whitman sound lik ...
ADAMIC WALT WHITMAN 73 things,” he tells himself, “minerals, vegetables, animals etc,” and he calls this life ’s work his “Great ...
74 PA RT O N E farm lane and wrestle with a hickory sapling “to get into my old sinews some of its elastic fibre and clear sap.” ...
75 “Earth’s most graphic transaction” Syllables of Emily Dickinson f I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ev ...
76 PA RT O N E almost three hundred lyrics by then, including lines relaying the Holy Trinity to her garden plot: “In the name o ...
SYLLABLES OF EMILY DICKINSON 77 pick a poisonous flower, or Goblins kidnap me, but I went along and met no one but Angels, who w ...
78 PA RT O N E a book near the other. Later she writes to young cousins about discovering a witch hazel shrub: “I had never seen ...
SYLLABLES OF EMILY DICKINSON 79 post,” here the bird ’s sheer speed makes “An easy Morning’s Ride.” Flippancy tips the poem’s an ...
80 PA RT O N E And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass— And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass— He gl ...
SYLLABLES OF EMILY DICKINSON 81 leap from riverbanks and swim, with or without splashing? In any event, “Banks of Noon” snaps ou ...
82 PA RT O N E both. One day Dickinson’s friend Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield, MassachusettsRepublican,put on his fro ...
SYLLABLES OF EMILY DICKINSON 83 Now a sexual hint emerges like Original Sin, as the grass divides and “A spot- ted shaft is seen ...
Emily Dickinson, “A narrow Fellow in the Grass” 84– By permission of The Houghton Library, Harvard University MS Am 1118.5 (B193 ...
Emily Dickinson, “A narrow Fellow in the Grass” manuscript. By permission of The Houghton Library, Harvard University MS Am 1118 ...
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