hope everyone’s okay. i was just checking because i haven’t been on here in a minute. What’s new?? How are the searches for Whitman coming along? […]
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hope everyone’s okay. i was just checking because i haven’t been on here in a minute. What’s new?? How are the searches for Whitman coming along? […] it feels like i haven’t been on here in forever…. […] Hi CUNY Whitman scholars, Here at UMW we’ve been finding poems that mention or respond to Whitman. This poem doesn’t do so directly, but it focuses on a love of Brooklyn that may resonate with your readings now: “On Leaving Brooklyn” after Psalm 137 If I forget thee let my tongue forget the songs it […] […] Nicole for the 29th of September, 2009 In our last class session we discussed many different topics pertaining to Whitman’s choice of words and the technicality of his writing, however one topic caught my interest; the run away slave passage, when it was described by Professor Gold it caught my interest. I have read that […] […] As we all know by now, Whitman himself was intensely interested in typography and design, an interest that led him to design and redesign various editions of Leaves of Grass. As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve just completed a major first step in the redesign of our own web-based project. You should be seeing a new […] […] Close Reading – focus closely on the language of the text – typical question: how would this text change if a different word were used in a particular place? how does the particular meaning of the text depend upon the exact language used here? ex. runaway slave passage — how would it be different if WW used “fugitive” […] […] Walt Whitman’s works made me confused. It does not mean I do not like his writing, but I’m frustrated and tired with all the reading. Everytime when I read passages, books or especially poems, I CANNOT read those without using the dictionary. I love reading, only in my native lanugage. Because English is not my first language, those vocabulary […] […] Walt Whitman’s works made me confused. It does not mean I do not like his writing, but I’m frustrated and tired with all the reading. Everytime when I read passages, books or especially poems, I CANNOT read those without using the dictionary. I love reading, only in my native lanugage. Because English is not my first language, those vocabulary […] […] As I read about Whitman’s upbringing and his past, I notice that he and I have one or two things in common. Growing up as a child, my family moved all around New York City. I have resided in four out of the five boroughs; all except for Staten Island. Moving around so much meant […] […] “I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s self…” Walt Whitman may have confused many of his readers the first few times they’ve read his poems. Considering his […] […] |