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Walt Whitman
(1819-92)
• Regarded as a mystic poet, sexual poet, democratic poet, his poems are like the Bible, comprehensive
Leaves of Grass
• Original , fresh, bold, licentious, uninhibited, unrestrained both in content and in form (free verse)
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death.
Influences upon him
• 1. influence from the Enlightenment
•
• (as embodied in Jefferson and Pain), ideals of the rights and dignity of the individual , toleration, humanitarianism（人道主义）, cosmopolitanism(世界主义) and idealism)
• “I was simmering, simmering, simmering, Emerson brought me to a boil” (Whitman)
• 3.influence from Emerson • 1)The poet is a seer, universal man.
• “America is a poem in our eyes, American Poet is a universal man.” (Emerson)
• 1. ′immanence（神在宇宙内的普遍存在性） of God in creation, plentitude, continuity and graduation
• 2. multiplicity and richness of nature • 3. sacredness of the self
• Buoyant optimism, democracy, equality, individualism
Leaves of Grass
• 1st edition in 1855 12 poems, last edition over 400 poems
• editions: 1855, 56, 60, 67, 71, 76, 81, 89, 91-92
• I greet you at the beginning of a great career,…I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion.
• ----Emerson, 21th July, 1855
Themes: focus on man and nature
• “The greatest poet breathes into the world the grandeur and life of universe.” (Whitman)
•
• 2) poetry is organic, natural.
• Art should be based organically on nature , poetry grows out of nature; a poem is alive and passionate like the spirit of a plant/animal from nature (Emerson)
• 2. influence from Transcendentalism
• reliance on insight and intuition, infinite power of man to gain knowledge by merging into nature
• 3.influence from Emerson
• 6. cosmic evolution • 7. the beauty of death as part of the cycle
of birth, life, death and resurrection •
“Song of Myself”
• From a blade of grass see into the mystery of death and birth
• the rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud… as lilacs and roses on a bush…(Whitman)
• 3)Both men believed in insight and intuition of man.
• Conclusion: there is no death •
“Song of Myself ”, cycle 1
• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
来自百度文库hemes
• 4. equality of all things and beings, the equal potential divinity of everything from grass to mankind
• 5. love and companionship as a force stronger than social compacts
(1819-92)
• Regarded as a mystic poet, sexual poet, democratic poet, his poems are like the Bible, comprehensive
Leaves of Grass
• Original , fresh, bold, licentious, uninhibited, unrestrained both in content and in form (free verse)
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death.
Influences upon him
• 1. influence from the Enlightenment
•
• (as embodied in Jefferson and Pain), ideals of the rights and dignity of the individual , toleration, humanitarianism（人道主义）, cosmopolitanism(世界主义) and idealism)
• “I was simmering, simmering, simmering, Emerson brought me to a boil” (Whitman)
• 3.influence from Emerson • 1)The poet is a seer, universal man.
• “America is a poem in our eyes, American Poet is a universal man.” (Emerson)
• 1. ′immanence（神在宇宙内的普遍存在性） of God in creation, plentitude, continuity and graduation
• 2. multiplicity and richness of nature • 3. sacredness of the self
• Buoyant optimism, democracy, equality, individualism
Leaves of Grass
• 1st edition in 1855 12 poems, last edition over 400 poems
• editions: 1855, 56, 60, 67, 71, 76, 81, 89, 91-92
• I greet you at the beginning of a great career,…I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion.
• ----Emerson, 21th July, 1855
Themes: focus on man and nature
• “The greatest poet breathes into the world the grandeur and life of universe.” (Whitman)
•
• 2) poetry is organic, natural.
• Art should be based organically on nature , poetry grows out of nature; a poem is alive and passionate like the spirit of a plant/animal from nature (Emerson)
• 2. influence from Transcendentalism
• reliance on insight and intuition, infinite power of man to gain knowledge by merging into nature
• 3.influence from Emerson
• 6. cosmic evolution • 7. the beauty of death as part of the cycle
of birth, life, death and resurrection •
“Song of Myself”
• From a blade of grass see into the mystery of death and birth
• the rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud… as lilacs and roses on a bush…(Whitman)
• 3)Both men believed in insight and intuition of man.
• Conclusion: there is no death •
“Song of Myself ”, cycle 1
• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
来自百度文库hemes
• 4. equality of all things and beings, the equal potential divinity of everything from grass to mankind
• 5. love and companionship as a force stronger than social compacts