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A 6 page analysis of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of
Grass.” Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAwitgrs.rtf
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Whitman published the first version of his greatest book, Leaves of Grass, in 1855, the poems it contained praised the sensuality and the comradeship of the common man" (Wikholm). His
"rough-hewn celebration of the body and sweat and father-juice was shocking to most of his readers" (Wikholm). Another critic indicates that "The collection is considered one of the worlds major
literary works and stands as a revolutionary development in poetry: Walts free verse and rhythmic innovations stand in marked contrast to the rigid rhyming and structural patterns formerly considered so
essential to poetic expression" (Walt Whitman). With these simple foundations in mind the following paper presents an examination of Whitmans "Leaves of Grass." Leaves of Grass Kummings, like most
other scholars who teach or study Whitmans "Leaves of Grass," focuses a great deal on "Song of Myself" in his textbook "Approaches to Teaching Whitmans Leaves of Grass." Kummings, and
others, realize that this poem is one of the most significant in the work and serves as perhaps the foundation and theme for the entire poetic compilation. In light of
this we first look at this poem as representative of the structure and format of the entire work. One of the most powerful reasons for this being perhaps the
center of the work is that which relates to length and depth. This is the longest poem in the work and it is a poem that deeply and intricately discusses
human nature, the narrators nature, longing, childhood, self, and love, to mention just some of the subject within this long poem. Because this poem contains so many different elements we
find, as readers, that the rest of his work seems to fall together in that all the poems touch on a subject that is also found in "Song of Myself."
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