Whitman, Walt

Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry and Collected Prose. The Library of America, New York. 1982. 

Whitman, Walt. Passage to India (1868). In Malcolm Cowley, ed., The Complete Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman. Garden City, N.Y. Garden City Books, 1948. 

Thomas Jefferson, Instructions to Captain Lewis, collected in Merrill D. Peterson, ed., The Portable Thomas Jefferson (New York Penguin, 1975), pp. 310-311 Gay Wilson Allen, ed., The Portable Walt Whitman (New York Viking, 1973), p. 279. 

A description of the trauma caused by war wounds suffered by a soldier injured in the American Civil War is to be found in Walt Whitman s Civil War (Lowenfels, 1989) ... 

Did you know that a significantly large number of established writers and artists have had bipolar disorder, a disease in which patients oscillate between depression and hyperactive euphoria In my imaginary collection, there are plenty of artists brains. Follow me. Look toward your left. Here are the brains of the brilliant writers, artists, and composers who had bipolar disorder Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Cole Porter, Anne... 

Walt Whitman s collection of poems. Leaves of d. we submitted it... 

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This root was known to many early American settlers and to Walt Whitman, who wrote forty-five poems under the title "Calamus in Leaves of Grass. (Invoking calamus in the thirteenth poem, Whitman realizes that he "must change the strain—these are not to be/ pensive leaves, but leaves of joy. . . . )... 

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J.D. McClatchy Walt Whitman Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman... 

O iove, soive aii, fructify aii with the iast chemistry. —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, ca. 1855... 

Acorus calamus has been used as a hallucinogen since ancient times and it has several uses in folk medicine. It may have been one of the constituents of the Holy Oil that God commanded Moses to make (Exodus 30) and is mentioned by ancient writers on medicine, such as Hippocrates, Theophrastus, Dioscorides, and Celsus (http //www.alb2c3.eom/drugs/var002.htm). Walt Whitman s 39 Calamus poems are to be found in his well-known collection Leaves of Grass. ... 

Using the suggestions of this chapter, a student responded to the Walt Whitman poem that follows. The student essay on pages 436-438 presents an analysis developed from some of the notes shown here. 

Walt Whitman was a nineteenth-century American poet whose free verse poems often broke with conventional style and subject matter. Some of his most famous poems, including Song of Myself," Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, and Passage to India, extol the virtues of the common people and stress their unity with a universal spirit. This poem was published in 1865. 

In the poem "When I Heard the Learn d Astronomer," nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman contrasts two ways people may study the world around them. They can approach the world through lectures and facts, and they can experience nature firsthand through their own senses. Through the use of contrasting structures, imagery, diction, and sound devices in this poem. Whitman expresses a strong preference for personal experience. 

Before it became a sanitized, suburban community, Huntington was the birthplace and home of Walt Whitman. His home is now a historical site and worth a visit for fans of the revolutionary poet. For fresh produce shipped in from the eastern end of the island, head to Sweet Potatoes Organic Market (35 Gerard St., b 516-423-6424). 

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt Whitman, Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun, 1900... 

Read the following excerpt by Walt Whitman from There Was A Child Went Forth, in Leaves of Grass, 1855. 

Don t worry if you notice occasional contradictions as you look up your planetary placements They re inevitable. As Walt Whitman said, Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Concentrate instead on the ideas that pop up again and again. Once you identify those themes, you re on your way to being an astrologer. 

The poet Walt Whitman, born May 31,1819, had the Moon in Leo in the sixth house. As a Gemini, he s known for his writing. As someone with the Moon in the house of work and health, he s also recognized for regular jobs he held during his lifetime. Among other professions, he was a... 

Hard aspects An unusual concern with sexuality or the supernatural can arise from the blocked energy of this charged aspect. Obsession is likely — but the direction of that obsession depends on the individual. Two examples, born a week apart, are Queen Victoria, who lent her name to an era known for its repressive ways, and Walt Whitman, whose J poetry is suffused with joyous sexuality and uninhibited love. 

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