http://ginam.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/09/23/glorifying-the-corpse/ Just another Looking for Whitman weblog Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:40:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 http://ginam.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/09/23/glorifying-the-corpse/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:21:39 +0000 http://ginam.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=27#comment-8 Thanks for pointing out the importance of the mother in this poem and for comparing his representation with other historical representations. Do you think the depiction is realistic–or sentimental? Or neither?

]]> http://ginam.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/09/23/glorifying-the-corpse/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:55:11 +0000 http://ginam.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=27#comment-6 It’s curious that almost every mention of a woman in Whitman’s poems is about childbearing and motherhood.

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