Author Archive | steinem

My topic will focus on exploring Whitman and his relationship with both the death of the body and the soul. I will explore this both through his work during the pre and post civil war eras and through various critical sources that I have found during my research. So much of Whitman’s work revolves around […]

This poem explores the deepest forms of human experience: birth, knowledge, love, loss, and death. For my blog post, I would like to flush out the portion about the heart and its unique experiences. In part three after Spahr discusses the lengthy list of all the things we “learned” and “loved”, she says “and this […]

For my post, I am going to explore both “Going Somewhere” and “Continuities” and continue a conversation we had about how both life and death can be transformed into something else, such as nature. Both poems seem to speak to the idea that life is always moving forward; “onward, onward” life is not a stagnant […]

Walt Whitman’s emphasis on the individual seems to be poignant yet again in “In Paths Untrodden”. Here, it seems society can limit an individual from doing what they truly want to do, or doing something that might not follow the “conformities” of society. It seems Whitman is saying that people are afraid to break the […]

“A woman’s body at auction, She too is not only herself, she is the teeming mother of mothers, She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers. Have you ever loved the body of a woman? Have you ever loved the body of a man? Do you not see […]