Comments on: Whitman’s Late Poetry http://drumtaps.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/19/late_poetry/ Just another Looking for Whitman weblog Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:49:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 By: jillians http://drumtaps.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/19/late_poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:47:39 +0000 http://drumtaps.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=121#comment-19 I agree and also appreciate his love of life, even in his last days. And I too, am really enjoying the later poetry.

]]> By: bmzreece http://drumtaps.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/19/late_poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:22:01 +0000 http://drumtaps.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=121#comment-18 “If Whitman ever had fears about dying, it does not show in his poetry.”

Yes, for example in “Twilight,” in which Whitman anticipates reaching a stage of nirvana when thinking about his approaching death rather than expressing any type of apprehension or regret.

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