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Technically didn’t finish it. Tried 4 times. Can’t get into it. I feel awful.
I was inspired to read this after it was featured as a plot device in Paper Towns. Unfortunately, it's completely unreadable.
A classic book which was revised over and over by the author - includes such favorites as "O Captain, my Captain" which will call to mind that movie with Robin Williams about the literature teacher and the troubled all-boys-school students.
Really enjoyed catching the irregular rhythms of the free verse, also a much less didactic and tedious presentation of transcendentalist thinking than the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. There are things about transcendentalism that resonates with me here (presentation of the majesty of nature, the miracle of life, the equality and nobility of humanity) but other things that I chafe against (the fascination with self sufficiency and the rejection of the divinity of Christ)
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
something has been quenched in my mind, body, and soul. i want to read this forever, always for the first time. i didn’t want to put it down for a single moment. i want to carry it with me everywhere. i want to pull my heart out of my chest and press it between the pages like a flower, absorbing the words over time. this collection makes me want to be a better person. to see the world anew, with a greater sense of both understanding and sympathy for everyone everywhere. the best art is that which inspires love and life, passion and empathy. i cannot think of a greater example than this.
i finished the second half of this collection in a cemetery on the most pleasant april day i can imagine. i like to think that is just how whitman intended his work to be enjoyed. i can't think of a more fitting, more serendipitous reading experience.
it’s a wonder whitman isn’t a more prevalent figure in the public canon of poetry, especially in academia. i’m shocked and frankly, a bit saddened that i haven’t come across his work in pursuit of my degree.
i finished the second half of this collection in a cemetery on the most pleasant april day i can imagine. i like to think that is just how whitman intended his work to be enjoyed. i can't think of a more fitting, more serendipitous reading experience.
it’s a wonder whitman isn’t a more prevalent figure in the public canon of poetry, especially in academia. i’m shocked and frankly, a bit saddened that i haven’t come across his work in pursuit of my degree.
Whitman comes off like kind of a dick. I think I need another go around before I get his rhythm.
very good five star poetry but oh my GOD walt never heard the word concise in his life!!!!! he had so many banger words. SO many. perhaps too many. yet they were all so good that i have no choice but to rate 5 stars so he knows better than me i guess
I have no idea which version of this book I have, but it is distinctly 70s, with black and white soft focus photographs and a mustard yellow, fibrous cover. It was my mom's or my dad's. I picked it up some time in high school from our hallway bookshelf. I made enough of an impression upon me that I constructed my senior speech around a portion of it. Whitman's environmental message is probably more relevant today than it was at the time of his writing. It definitely contributed to my hippie tendencies in high school, my environmental concerns in college and law school, and the way I feel about the state of the environment today.
Uncle Walt, man. This is his best work. I read his poetry in my own voice, which is extremely difficult for an author to get me to do, and extremely powerful if I am actually able to do it.