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I need to read this again. I've already forgotten so much of it but then again, I have never had to digest such a long poem before. It had me stunned though which is the mark of an effective poem in my opinion. If someone asked me what literature entails, I would hand them this. I look forward to revisiting this in the future to gauge my understanding and enjoyment further.
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"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world"
Read this for my American lit class over Thanksgiving break. I feel like if I read it in my free time I would have enjoyed it more. There were some poems I liked and some I didn't and some of both that Whitman must have been very high to write
inspiring
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i stop some where waiting for you
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This poem is the inspiration for every other bit of poetry I love. I am glad I went to the source and got to experience the immersive journey that is this beautiful stream of consciousness. I know it is often interpreted as an ode to the American soul, but it goes beyond that; it is an ode to the human soul. It still impresses me that something so intensely and structurally modern could have been written in 1855. It is no wonder that this is such a foundational piece of literature, and it has also become foundational to me personally.
I loved the sense of common value, equal worth and overall joyful tone of this poem. It does read like a song, and in terms of freedom of style and form it is far ahead of its time. I would really never have said it was written in the nineteenth century. Walt Whitman was a bonafide hipster (in the true sense, not in the overdone pretentious sense that we are familiar with today). If this isn't the American Dream then I don't know what is.