Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2009
Having finished the first edition of Leaves of Grass, I think I’ve fallen in love with Whitman even more. I found myself reading it aloud because, for me, it just sounds so beautiful. It’s so intriguing to me that a man who lived in his time would have these views of the world. It was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2009
In one of Whitman’s “laundry lists”, so to speak, in Song of Myself he mentions “Over the western Persimmion…” Since I, like so many people, rely on my mind’s eye to illustrate what I’m reading, it occured to me that persimmion was something that I couldn’t picture at all. I had heard the word before, but […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2009
I tramp a perpetual journey, My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods; No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy; I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange, But each man and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 3rd, 2009
Welcome to Looking for Whitman. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 3rd, 2009
Here’s my first post on my very first blog.