So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death

So Long! Walt Whitman’s Poetry of Death HAROLD ASPIZ ...

So Long! Walt Whitman’s Poetry of Death ...

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So Long! Walt Whitman’s Poetry of Death HAROLD ASPIZ THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa and London ...

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“In the future of these States must arise poets immenser far, and make great poems of death.”—Democratic Vistas ...

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Contents Preface ix Introduction: “Great Poems of Death” 1 1. “Triumphal Drums for the Dead”: “Song of Myself,” 1855 33 2. “Grea ...

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Preface The theme of death pervades the text and the subtext of Leaves of Grass. Although some of his contemporaries hailed Whit ...

and scienti¤c theories concerning death or those advocated by estab- lished religion. He viewed death as an eternal and benign m ...

of death in “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”; his despairing con- frontation with mortality in “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean o ...

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So Long! Walt Whitman’s Poetry of Death ...

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1 Walt Whitman is a great poet of the joys of life, but he is equally a great poet of death. Few poets have been so immersed in ...

sound like an iron chord in Leaves of Grass. In fact, he was proud of his achievement as a poet of death. Comparing his own pron ...

I thank him for the great and splendid words he has said in favor of liberty, in favor of man and woman, in favor of mother- hoo ...

of death that appear in Leaves of Grass. Confronted on all sides by con- tradictory evidence and con®icting ideologies, he choos ...

death—one who confronts death as a force equal to himself, whether it appears as a mother, a lover, or an adversary. In his limi ...