So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death
truths can invent a language that will convey these visions or truths to the reader? Perceiving tokens of divine truth in the em ...
divine grammar of all tongues, and says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President in the midst of his cabi- n ...
he concentrated less on the physical self and increasingly on his own im- pending death and the capacity of his own soul to test ...
whether it is some manifestation of the body, body and soul together, or the soul alone—that will enjoy a continued existence be ...
Whitman’s daily witness to the bleak reality of death and dying inhibited him from conjecturing about the satisfactions of the a ...
Whitman also backs away from his early contention that these cosmic truths may be accessed by the broad masses—the “super¤cial o ...
with the duty it devolves, is rounded and apparently completed, it still remains to be really completed by suffusing through the ...
physical body that had characterized the earlier editions of Leaves of Grass in favor of a mystic body—an eidolon body—that tran ...
Whitman participated: “For a few moments his face wore an expression that she had never seen before—he seemed rapt, absorbed... ...
The grave—the grave. What foolish man calls it a dreadful place? It is a kind friend, whose arms shall compass us round about, a ...
For vainly through this world below We seek affection. Nought but wo Is without earthly journey wove, And so the heart must look ...
“step down to the Unknown World alone” while he is “looking on water, sun, and hill, / As on their Maker’s face.” The imagery of ...
safed from above, he would at once take the measures experience had proved most ef¤cacious, not seldom ¤nding his reward the nex ...
day, thumping with his cane on the ®oor and seemingly oblivious to the funeral service being conducted in the adjoining room.^28 ...
chylus, Epictetus, Horace, Virgil, Ossian, Ha¤z, and Walter Scott in his youth.^30 Among the still-popular poetic meditations on ...
conveying a taste of open air... always lurkingly fond of threnodies— beginning and ending his long career with chants of death, ...
days. Was it not better so? Or is it better to have before us the idea of dissolution, typi¤ed by the spectral horror upon the p ...
man’s treatment of death is often rooted in his loneliness and his mo- ments of despair—transient feelings that are offset by hi ...
common folk, persuading them that their lives and their deaths can be meaningful and satisfying and that he sees auguries of uni ...
rate prayers for his release from physical suffering. And referring to his own “grave illness,” Whitman labeled the 1876 edition ...
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