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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
slow-paced
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
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Complicated
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Diverse cast of characters:
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Take your time with the book and just feel the longing, hopefulness and melancholy that he lives through as he documents his America for 30 years, how he sees it, how he experiences it, and how he wishes it would be.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
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Diverse cast of characters:
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“For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.” (“To a Certain Civilian,” Leaves of Grass, Whitman)
I have always enjoyed Whitman’s poetry, and I have read a few poems from Leaves of Grass before. after reading them all, though, I’m just struck by how much beauty Whitman saw in the world while still seeing so much of the bad. I don’t think it would be fair to call him ignorant for his time, but it’s difficult for me to imagine someone loving the US as much as he did while knowing so much of the worst parts of it. And still he was optimistic. I enjoy his poetry a lot, but this is still quite an alien concept to me, at least at this point in my life.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
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slow-paced
Some of it is lovely but dang this took me years to get through. I understand the repetition was supposed to deliver a point but it was so dull.
أيها الغريب
حين تمر بي، وتريد ان تحدثني
لم لا تحدثني؟
ولمَ لا أحدثك؟
لن أغني ليوم واحد
بل، للأيام كلها
أؤمن بكٍ يا نفس (...)
تسكعي معي على العشب
أطلقي العثدة من حنجرتك
آثار قدمي على الأرض تثير مائة عاطفة
مائة عاطفة تهزأ بفدرتي على اجتلائها
أحب الذين يترعرعون في البرية
الرجال الذين يعيشون بين الانعام
أو مع طعم المحيطات والغابات
بناة السفن وقائديها، وذوي الفؤوس والمطارق
وسائقى الخيول...
حين تمر بي، وتريد ان تحدثني
لم لا تحدثني؟
ولمَ لا أحدثك؟
لن أغني ليوم واحد
بل، للأيام كلها
أؤمن بكٍ يا نفس (...)
تسكعي معي على العشب
أطلقي العثدة من حنجرتك
آثار قدمي على الأرض تثير مائة عاطفة
مائة عاطفة تهزأ بفدرتي على اجتلائها
أحب الذين يترعرعون في البرية
الرجال الذين يعيشون بين الانعام
أو مع طعم المحيطات والغابات
بناة السفن وقائديها، وذوي الفؤوس والمطارق
وسائقى الخيول...
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
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Strong character development:
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Loveable characters:
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Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
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DNF. Poetry isn't for me. I'm gonna stop trying now.