Author Archive | Emma McGlade

I really enjoyed everyone’s project presentations on Monday and I thank you all for listening to mine! I ended up being more interested in my topic than I thought I would and it’s definitely made me see the world and our shared human experience through a more Whitmanian lense. From examining Whitman’s daily presence on […]

There’s no doubt that Spahr was heavily influenced by the work of our dear Walt Whitman in both content and form after reading her poem, “Poem After September 11, 2001”, which comes from her book of poetry entitled, “The Connection of Everyone with Lungs.” Spahr’s poetry in this book attempts to cope with the tragedy […]

The first aspect of Lerner’s writing that reminded me of Whitman is simply how unique his style and form is for his day and age. There’s no doubt for each man’s respective time that they are regarded as being individually brilliant. Whitman is considered the father of American poetry because of the ideas he introduced […]

For the Final Project I will be researching Walt Whitman’s presence in social media, specifically looking at Twitter. One of the major aspects Whitman is known for is being a poet who tried to encompass and connect with his poetry and consequently his readers. Whitman is often referred to as being a universal poet, or […]

Similarly to many writers and poets who have experienced war first-hand, Whitman writes a series of pieces of rather disturbing personal accounts he witnessed during his time as a nurse in the Civil War and his intimate thoughts about what he saw. Specifically, Whitman gives these accounts in two of his sections of poetry and prose […]

Mark Doty’s “Letter to Walt Whitman” is one of the many pieces of literature composed as a response to Whitman himself. Many writers speak to Whitman in their works, and have for decades, but what stood out most to me in Doty’s address to Whitman was the direct and intimate tone he utilizes. Doty even […]

In Whitman’s poem “I Sing the Body Electric” he focuses on only discussing and celebrating the physical body, whereas before he had explored the interconnectedness of the body and soul. However, section five of this particular poem piques my interest most because it is the section of the poem that specifically celebrates women’s bodies. The […]

With very little knowledge or background on Whitman other than what has been discussed in the first few class sessions, I have always had trouble understanding why Whitman was so intriguing to such a wide variety of people throughout history and even still today. When I was first casually introduced to our dear Walt back […]