“I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind…America why are your libraries full of tears?” In the aforementioned line in “America” Ginsberg provides an ironic reveal of America as it becomes characterized by chaos, in the form of violence, discrimination, and other components, which breed censorship and repression in attempts to conceal this. Like Whitman, Ginsberg employs a […]
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Walt Whitman: Blog Post #2
“I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also…I moisten the roots of all that has grown” (209). In “Song of Myself” Whitman creates an all-inclusive perspective that unites him with all women and men in their positive and negative qualities. Through various descriptions of the […]
Walt Whitman: Blog Post #1
Shaina Clingempeel “Whatever would put God in a poem or system of philosophy as contending against some being or influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterize the great master…spoilt in one principle all is spoilt. The great master has nothing to do with miracles. He sees health for himself in being one […]
