Walt Whitman
- Walter "Walt" Whitman (/ˈwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.[1] His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.
- Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and—in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. He died at age 72 and his funeral became a public spectacle.[2][3]
- Whitman's sexuality is often discussed alongside his poetry. Though biographers continue to debate his sexuality, he is usually described as either homosexual or bisexual in his feelings and attractions. However, there is disagreement among biographers as to whether Whitman had actual sexual experiences with men.[4]
- Whitman was concerned with politics throughout his life. He supported the Wilmot Proviso and opposed the extension of slavery generally. His poetry presented an egalitarian view of the races, though his attitude in life reflected many of the racial prejudices common to nineteenth-century America and his opposition to slavery was not necessarily based on belief in the equality of races per se.[5] At one point he called for the abolition of slavery, but later he saw the abolitionist movement as a threat to democracy.[6]
treatise: a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject 專著
obscene literature 淫穢文學
- Ob/obs-
- oblivion
- oblivious
- obscure
- obstacle
district attorney 地方檢察官
Transdantolism
The father of free verse
Transcebdentilsm
Carpe diem-- seize the day 春風化雨系列電影
- Far-reach comparison 在僵化的體制群找聲音
- Dead poets society (movie)
- Mona Lisa smile (movie)
- The freedom writers diary (movie)
- Mr. Holland's opus
- To sir, with love
- Sir
- Madame
- Full professor
- Associate professor
- Assistant professor
- Lecturer
student lounge
O captain my captain (poem)
forefathers
YouTube: Carpe Diem dead poets society
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may by Robert Herrick
predecessor successor successive succession
prime time 黃金八點檔
17 centery Metaohysical poetry
John Donne: no man is an island
E. M. Foster's a passage to India 印度之旅
Walt Whiteman: passage to India
A valediction: forbidding mourning by John Donne
If they be two, they are two so 25
As stiff twin compasses are two ;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam, 30
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Metaohysical conceit
* Far-reach comparison
739
Though we cannot make our sun stand still,
Yet we cab make him run.
740
Dover beach
* A short lyric poem
* Dover bitch and Dover beach
Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
* The philosophy of composition
* Metaphor
* Snake
* Puberty
* Semiotics
Danae and the golden shower
Rapenzel
Phallic symbol
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