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”
Calamus
And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pond-side,(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,And this, O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades,
Top five Walt Whitman images
(In no particular order, because I couldn’t possibly rank these.) Item one: nice one, Walt. Really going for a certain kind of appeal here. I’ll be honest, much as I’d love to sit here and make jokes about Hot Walt
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