Whitman and Dickinson

This was a topic that I wanted to talk about in my Archive Project but I ran out of space, so I thought I’d share it here: I’ve become increasingly curious about the color of the covers of Walt Whitman’s

A couple of weeks ago, as we were finishing up discussing Song of Myself, we created a list of what we imagined the self was in the poem. This was also a discussion of how Whitman was portrayed in the

After spending a considerable amount of time reading Whitman at this point in the semester I find it interesting the topics in which he feels he has the right to comment on. In “Song of Myself” he acted as a

As we have previously discussed, Whitman’s success as an author stemmed from both his ability to push boundaries, and his willingness to do so. His poems spoke about a visceral but very human element that many writers had been loathe

Hi everyone! I have my own campus radio show, and every week I play songs that relate to a certain theme. I was thinking about doing a show dedicated to Walt Whitman. Do you all have any song suggestions? If

When tackling both of Whitman’s poems, I have to say Children of Adam: “From Pent-Up Aching Rivers” rubbed me the wrong way. I am not exactly sure if it is because I am reading it too much from a modern

So I am gonna start with my take on the titles of the poems, “From Pent-up Aching Rivers” and “I Sing the Body Electric.” First impressions on “From Pent-up Aching Rivers,” was an suppressing emotion until they began to overflow.