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Whitman and Friends Two men close to Walt Whitman were Dr. Maurice Bucke and Horace Traubel.  Both of the men worshiped Whitman and spent their lives dedicated to honoring his work.  They are also considered, Whitman’s disciples[1] for their enthusiastic willingness to spread the works of Whitman and educate others through his literature.  In addition, […]

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The poem in its entirety Come up from the fields, father, here’s a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door, mother, here’s a letter from thy dear son. Lo, ’tis autumn, Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder, Cool and sweeten Ohio’s villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind, […]

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This Wednesday, November 11 is Veterans Day.  On May 13, 1938, Armistice was made a legal holiday, a day dedicated to the cause of world peace.  In 1953 the day was expanded to celebrate all veterans of war and on May 26, 1954, Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the observation of Veterans Day on […]

On Saturday November 7, myself, Dr. Hoffman and some of my classmates met for a tour of the Whitman House at 328 Mickle Street (now known as Martin Luther King Blvd).  To be honest, I was kind of dreading this trip.  A Saturday morning, in Camden, at the Walt Whitman House was not my idea […]

As I have previously mentioned, the focus on Whitman’s war poetry has been of great interest to me.  In his Songs of Parting, the titles are enough to send chills, and they did.  But as I read on, the poems took on a life of their own.  In them, I could see the faces of […]

These days the ferry is not the most popular choice for transportation, however before bridges, major highways and speed lines came along, the ferry was the only practical option for people looking to get across the Delaware River into Philadelphia from New Jersey.  The first know ferry system from Camden to Philadelphia was developed in […]

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I am really enjoying these poems recently.  After struggling to get through the first few weeks this has been refreshing, and dare I say it…fun.  I have always been interested in the Civil War and at one time was a History major.  Although my major has changed, my passion for History has not wavered.  In […]

We celebrate Lincoln on his birthday each year. There are eighteen counties (as noted in black) in the United States named in honor of Abraham Lincoln. There are numerous monuments, most famously Mount Rushmore and Lincoln Memorial, that honor Abraham Lincoln. We carry Abraham Lincoln’s face on both pennies and the five dollar bill.   But what does that all […]

I never realized how important a title was when it came to poetry. Last semester, in a class with Dr. Sill ,we had a class conversation about titles of chapters in novels.  Some of the students did not feel a chapter title was necessary, while others liked it as a form of foreshadowing.  I fell […]

Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has. Do you take it I would astonish? Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods? Do I astonish more than they? This hour I tell […]

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