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Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

Whitman, Walt

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1978240570
ISBN13: 9781978240575
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 13 2017
Pages: 692
Weight: 2.01
Height: 1.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman sings nature and his symbiosis with America, he sings the universe and his awareness of it all, but above all he sings the people and their quest for individuality and immortality. 'The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.' And here he includes himself with all his mysticism and spiritual illuminations. As for the quality of the work the words speak for themselves: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body...........

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