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A 6 page paper which
analyzes and discusses Walt Whitman's poem "When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom'd".
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touching on subjects that often shocked people. As one critic notes, in relationship to Whitman as a poet of his times, "In New York Whitman witnessed the rapid growth of
the city and wanted to write a new kind of poetry in tune with the mankinds new faith, hopeful expectations and energy of his days" (Books and Writers). The following
paper analyzes and discusses one of his poems which is very relevant to his time, "When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomd" which is, in many ways, a poem about the
loss of Abraham Lincoln. Walt Whitmans Poem As mentioned, this particular poem is about the death of Abraham Lincoln. The first stanza illustrates the sorrow that the narrator,
Whitman, felt at the death of Lincoln, equating it with nature and the lilacs : "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomd,/ And the great star early droopd in the
western sky in the night,/ I mournd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring./ Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,/ Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the
west,/ And thought of him I love" (Whitman 1-5). In this we see how Whitman equates a time of the year, the natural surroundings, with the death of a
powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerful events through equating them with such natural conditions. We may remember that the moon was
full when someone died, or that it was stormy, or that the hills were green when we heard some bad news. This offers Whitmans poem up in a manner that
the reader can clearly relate to, perhaps without even knowing it. Whitman then begins to offer up Lincoln as a symbol of hope and brightness by calling him a
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