Hi everyone! I don’t know if any of you are in to Beat Generation literature, but I happened to be perusing through some material by Allen Ginsberg this evening, and I stumbled across his poem “A Supermarket in California,” where
“What poets, I cried aloud, as one does in the dusk, what poets they were!”
In class yesterday, we talked a little bit about Dickinson as a recluse and how scholars continue to debate her motives for pulling away from face-to-face interaction. As we were talking, I couldn’t help but picture the image from the
“What is the grass?” John Donne answers.
As we’ve been reading and studying the versions of “Song of Myself,” I keep coming back to John Donne’s famous poem “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” especially in the “What is the grass?” sections of Whitman’s poems (page 31 in
Vanessa’s CS for January 28th
Ralph Waldo Emerson, a major contributor to the Transcendentalist Movement in American literature during the mid-1800s, deifies the role of the poet in his essays “The Poet” and “The American Scholar,” thus developing a most interesting relationship between the poet