AGHHHH after today’s class. What drew me to Dickinson and Whitman to begin with was their role as “ethical nature writers” and I DO think this is a valuable way to look at their work. They both connect poetry and
Walt’s, Mari’s, and my theory of human connection
I have been putting off typing this blog post, knowing that reading about or even thinking too hard about Human Connection During a Pandemic makes me cry a little. In the 11:00 class, we talked about section four of “I
Katia’s CS for February 16
At the start of “Whitman and the Gay American Ethos”, Killingsworth mentions Whitman’s movement “away from claims of full disclosure (‘to go undisguised and naked’) toward a complex interplay of revealing and concealing a ‘secret’ at the center of identity”
Camerado, I give you my hand!
Both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson believed in the written word not just as an articulation of one’s inner thoughts but, fundamentally, as a way to reach and even touch other people. They lived in an era that saw the