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A 3-page paper that examines the transcendentalist ideas of infinity and timelessness that are conveyed through the works of Walt Whitman. Included is a discussion of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and Song of Myself, both of which are included in Whitman's Leaves of Grass and both of which express the central idea of an ongoing cycle of life and death. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_LCSongs.doc
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I do not know if the author was ridiculing Whitman more than some, but no less of a great poet does this Whitman make. O parody! O
ridiculous parody! The author of this parody was obviously ridiculing not only the style and stance in which Whitman chose to write Song of Myself, but the content of the
poem as well. Walt Whitman was frequently ridiculed for his plays on words and his unique ability to modify and manipulate the English language in order to express his
sheer delight in living, and this parody seems to delight in mocking those very qualities. Whitman was also widely criticized for the length of both his lines and the
ultimate body of his poems, a criticism that was obviously not lost on this parodist as is evidenced in the line "long, long, long is this darned thing getting". Personally,
I was amused to read this parody. The non-poetic nonsense this writer produced only serves to highlight the fact that it takes an immense poetic talent, such as the
one possessed by Walt Whitman, to manipulate language into something of an "eternal smash" and still produce a poem that is well worth reading. II. The True Song "It
avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence..." (Whitman 3). These
words, which open the third stanza of Whitmans Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, contained in the acclaimed collection Leaves of Grass, are the essence of the philosophy of the author. Walt
Whitman began to write at a time when American writers were swept up in a great Renaissance that reflected the values and ideals of the transcendentalist religions of the East.
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