Whitman and Dickinson

I am not gonna lie, we started the conversation of “What is Grass?” and the only thing that went through my mind was The Lion King. There was the idea of reincarnation and that immediately made me think of Mufasa

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

I don’t want to admit how many times I actually watched this commercial. But if I did watch it in excess, it was for the benefit of the class. The screenshot above is from the very beginning of the ad,

In class today, we discussed Whitman’s controversial perspective on enlightenment, the divine, and humans’ relationship with nature. His sexual descriptions of the union of the body, soul, and nature and portrayal of embodied epiphanies promote the embracement of bodily pleasures,

“I celebrate myself…” Walt Whitman pgs. 27-99. I found Whitman’s “I celebrate myself” poem to be quite the evocative and meaningful read, in that throughout it’s branching paths of symbolism I find that there is always some deeper meaning to

In Folsom and Price’s biography of Whitman, they describe his visit to Fredericksburg during the Civil War. Initially jolted by the sight of his brother’s name in the casualty roster for the Battle of Fredericksburg, Whitman traveled from Brooklyn to

In last week’s readings we got an overview of Emerson’s call for a new style of American poetry and the qualities that he felt an American poet would need to drive national identity forward. The Folsom and Price biography of