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By Walt Whitman. Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander’d alone, bareheaded, barefoot, Down from the shower’d halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and ...
Walt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship. This monumental work chanted praises to the body as well as to the soul, and found beauty and...
Mar 12, 2024 · Whitman wrote this poem in response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He used the death of a ship’s captain as a metaphor for the death of the president. While there are many Walt Whitman poems expressing grief at the loss of Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!” is the most popular and memorable.
By Walt Whitman. On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star ...
Leaves of Grass (1856) Poem of Walt Whitman, an American. Poem of Women. Poem of Salutation. Poem of the Daily Work of the Workmen and Workwomen of These States. Broad-Axe Poem. Poem of a Few Greatnesses. Poem of the Body. Poem of Many in One.
essayist. journalist. Signature. Walter Whitman Jr. ( / ˈhwɪtmən /; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. [1]
Walt Whitman 200 - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. To mark the bicentennial of Walt Whitman's birth on May 31, 2019, we present this selection of his poems, prose, and ephemera; essays about his life and work ...
