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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
This book has come a cliche, but I don't really care. It's timeless and wonderful.
Walt Whitman loves words in a way similar to me. Their mastication, their weight, and their feel upon the tongue; a sensual experience, words. I have whole swathes of this book highlighted and it sits by my bed just waiting for me to have nothing else to read before bed.
Walt Whitman loves words in a way similar to me. Their mastication, their weight, and their feel upon the tongue; a sensual experience, words. I have whole swathes of this book highlighted and it sits by my bed just waiting for me to have nothing else to read before bed.
Tengo un problema con la poesía occidental desde que conocí los haikus japoneses: ahora me sobran todas esas reiteraciones y expresiones rimbombantes, versos y más versos para decir lo que bastarían unos pocos (bien elegidos). Ya no digamos la ausencia de humildad, que llega a ser sonrojante en algunas páginas. En definitiva: versos valiosos entre hojas de hierba.
Reread for the countless time. I was 7 or 8 when I chose to memorize A Noiseless Patient Spider for class. I recall my teacher being nervous as I brought Leaves of Grass from home and then relieved by the poem I recited. Took me a few years before I realized what the fuss was about.
This round I listened via audiobook. Very well done. Felt as if I were listening to a favorite album on the stereo.
This round I listened via audiobook. Very well done. Felt as if I were listening to a favorite album on the stereo.
“Is this then a touch?....quivering me to a new identity”
*4.5 goodreads give me a 1/2 star option you coward!!
okay so pros!! so many of these poems still felt relevant and thoughtful even tho they were written in 1844. like so many of the poems still feel touching and heartfelt. a lgbtq+ man who wrote poems about pinning and yearning for queer love in 1844!! another pro! a man from virginia who was not a confederate soldier! he was a nurse(?) for the union
cons... manifest destiny jump scares and way more poems on war than i anticipated??
okay so pros!! so many of these poems still felt relevant and thoughtful even tho they were written in 1844. like so many of the poems still feel touching and heartfelt. a lgbtq+ man who wrote poems about pinning and yearning for queer love in 1844!! another pro! a man from virginia who was not a confederate soldier! he was a nurse(?) for the union
cons... manifest destiny jump scares and way more poems on war than i anticipated??
While I really want to like Whitman, I'm just not that into his style. Most of his poems are ponderous and sometimes tedious.... but I still recognize his place in literature.