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3.99 AVERAGE
Some of the best poems that I have ever read. I would need to go through these slowly to appreciate them to the degree that they deserve.
Finished while drinking a Walt Wit in Lost Bar; wouldn't have it any other way.
I’m sorry. I tried and was bored to tears by the whole thing. Perhaps Whitman was so overhyped in my mind that there was not way for his work to actually come close to what I had imagined in my mind, possibly Whitman’s work and exaltation of America does not read as well in 2023. I should probably try this again in a few years, with a clearer head, and I might be able to enjoy the text.
I can't give stars for poetry - I just can't. It seems wrong. I'll just say I loved this.
I'm somehow very, very old and I was an English major and yet I had never read more than a few lines here and there of Walt Whitman! This edition is a copy of the original 1855 edition - in other words, the first time "Leaves of Grass" was published, these are the poems that were in the book. Throughout Whitman's life, he mostly tinkered with the same poems and added new ones, so the last edition of Leaves was published, I believe, shortly before his death and is much longer. This edition, for example, does not contain the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" (But this edition DOES contain the line about the "barbaric yawp!")
Whitman was all about lots of words; about listing things he found marvelous and he wanted you to find them marvelous too; about stream of consciousness. He was about nature and bodies and, yes, the amazing American experiment he believed in so deeply, and about what I can only call a spiritual belief system in which everything and everyone is good, valuable, and equal. This particular edition is very much a young man's optimistic collection of poems celebrating everything you can sense with your senses!
I'm somehow very, very old and I was an English major and yet I had never read more than a few lines here and there of Walt Whitman! This edition is a copy of the original 1855 edition - in other words, the first time "Leaves of Grass" was published, these are the poems that were in the book. Throughout Whitman's life, he mostly tinkered with the same poems and added new ones, so the last edition of Leaves was published, I believe, shortly before his death and is much longer. This edition, for example, does not contain the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" (But this edition DOES contain the line about the "barbaric yawp!")
Whitman was all about lots of words; about listing things he found marvelous and he wanted you to find them marvelous too; about stream of consciousness. He was about nature and bodies and, yes, the amazing American experiment he believed in so deeply, and about what I can only call a spiritual belief system in which everything and everyone is good, valuable, and equal. This particular edition is very much a young man's optimistic collection of poems celebrating everything you can sense with your senses!
Though it is dated in places, and I don't love his habit of listing pages of examples, the underlying message still rings as timeless as when he wrote it.
I like individual poems, but all together it feels like he's trying to me a word quota.
Absolutely one of the best poets of all time. His celebration of the human being is awespiring. Even when I don't feel like he does, I find inspiration in his joy.
Now I can say I’ve read Walt Whitman.
He is not my cup of tea.
While I did enjoy several poems (especially the ones about Abraham Lincoln), overall I wouldn’t say I enjoy his style.
He is not my cup of tea.
While I did enjoy several poems (especially the ones about Abraham Lincoln), overall I wouldn’t say I enjoy his style.