Comments on: The American Experience: Walt Whitman http://reinspiration.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/27/the-american-experience-walt-whitman/ old poet - new time and place Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 By: miri http://reinspiration.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/27/the-american-experience-walt-whitman/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:36:00 +0000 http://reinspiration.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=41#comment-11 Hi Sanja,

I am a student at CUNY, and I was reading your post. I share the same opinion with you, Whitman was really influenced by the surroundings. One good example, from one of the posts by Erin M. at Rutgers Camden describes in deeper details how Whitman is inspired from “the energy and spirit of the city, but also the energy of the descriptions of nature and nature and the body in (Song of Myself)”. Check it out
here!

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