So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death
spirit “Harmonial Philosophy,” and credited the material progress of the nineteenth century to its steady rapprochement with the ...
that after all reasoning and analogy and their most palpable demonstra- tions of any thing, we have the real satisfaction only w ...
glory, which was commonly used as a symbol in mortuary portraiture, is also an appropriate symbol for Whitman’s American drama o ...
Whitman compares them to taking an opiate—by the persona who wishes to test how close the senses can bring him to the brink of d ...
Steeped amid honeyed morphine.... my windpipe is squeezed in fakes of death, Let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles, And tha ...
poem. Leaves of Grass could not include overt references to the presum- ably sordid sexual activities that were decried by cleri ...
he and humanity have evolved. In language reminiscent of his ¤nding God’s emblematic handkerchief in section 6, he says, I wonde ...
this sense, the persona “enters into” every person, object, or occurrence that he beholds during his progress through the realm ...
horri¤ed children look on. And in an odd montage of violence, sexual excitement, and the terror of death, the persona “becomes,” ...
Another scenario pictures a “mashed ¤reman” with a crushed “breast- bone” who lies beneath the rubble of a collapsed building. ( ...
deaths of ¤remen, soldiers, swimmers, etc., Whitman may have intended to illustrate the principle that the human soul must prove ...
paign slogan when Houston, then a senator from Texas, was prominently mentioned as the presidential nominee of the nativist Know ...
betrayed by the Mexican of¤cers and ruthlessly slaughtered but that each American soldier fought doggedly until death. Unmention ...
“little captain,” serene, bright-eyed, his voice attesting to his inspirational life force. After hours of savage ¤ghting, his s ...
Like Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, Whitman knew the terrible toll that is exacted from the artist who ventures too close to the ...
“the fakes of death” (section 26) and his agonizing identi¤cation with the legions of the dying (sections 33–37), he once again ...
Whitman-Christ wearing a two-thousand-year-old blossom in his hat as he passes the “boundary lines” of life and death is an effe ...
his power to revivify the dying, contravening death by blowing the “grit” of his life force into the most wretched of humans—the ...
mass-range of perception of the race—part of the infant school—and that the developed soul passes through one or all of them, to ...
deeply within themselves. To the despairing “disheartened atheistical” skeptics he confesses that his knowledge comes from exper ...
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