In this feature, I'll share a weekly guest with you all,
and you tell me in only three words what come to mind.
In Three Words...
Walt Whitman
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
Thoughtful, Insightful, Brillant
ReplyDeleteControversial Indulgent Poet
ReplyDeleteGay free spirit
ReplyDeleteDull gay poet.
ReplyDeleteHis writing is so frustrating to engage with, he makes James Joyce seem like Enid Blyton!
Not a fan.
Jx
Civil War volunteer nurse.
ReplyDeleteIntriguing, frustrating, complex.
ReplyDeleteLeaves of Grass
ReplyDeleteOver the last 40 years or so I've read it no less than EIGHT times. Not an easy read - with so many 'lists' and litanies which, IMO, can make it needlessly almost 'stodgy' whilst seeking out the reflective, philosophical gems..
DeleteEight times?!?! I applaud you Raybeard.
DeleteBrilliant Gifted Queer
ReplyDeleteGay Old Poet!
ReplyDeleteAbraham Lincoln's Lover.
ReplyDeleteRollins Environmental Lit
ReplyDeleteGreat Gay Poet
ReplyDeleteI sing the body electric!
Name vaguely familiar
ReplyDeleteLeaves Of Grass!
ReplyDeleteCaptain My Captain
ReplyDeleteRevolutionized American poetry.
ReplyDeleteInfluential, Innovative, Unconventional.
ReplyDeleteInterred, Camden, NJ
ReplyDeleteThis vast similitude
ReplyDeleteI am not a fan either but Vaughan Williams used some of his poems in 'A Sea Symphony', a choral work written in 1909
I adore this piece of music and the way it uses Walt Whitman's words
The Body electric!
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