/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10673714]

>I cum all over America,
>Thick, ropey, milky white, abundant,
>All over the mountains and trees, from Canada to Mexico,
>Encrusting everyone, male and female, child or elderly, black or white (I do not discriminate),
>But it is not me who cums,
>But my soul.

What the fuck is this garbage? Is this really the greatest American poet?

[Anonymous No.10673976]

>>10673714
>Do I shit myself?
>Very well, I shit myself.
>I am large, I contain multiturds.

[Anonymous No.10673978]

Bloom would like a word with you.

[Anonymous No.10673986]

walt redditman is legitimately the worst shit i have ever read

[Anonymous No.10673988]

>>10673978
bloom sounds like such a pathetic little bastard these days with his pathetic puling
just
>Oh! The fascists have won the elction! My impetuous hebrew heart be still be still!

[Anonymous No.10674035]

>>10673714

D.H Lawrence BTFO of Whitman.

[Anonymous No.10674044]

>>10673978

>favourite whitman poem is When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard BLOOMed

like he isn't biased in any way

[Anonymous No.10674865]

>>10673714
Not merely the greatest American poet, but one of the greatest poets the Western World has known since Shakespeare.

He was, essentially, philosophically 50 -100 years ahead of his time.

>>10673978
Emerson would also like a word with him.

[Anonymous No.10674868]

>>10673976

[Anonymous No.10674875]

>>10673714
...is this real?
I've never read Whitman but I dunno maybe now I never will.

[Anonymous No.10674882]

>>10673988
corporate fascism won the election, there’s a resurgence of blatant ignorance, double think, shilling for private capital, deregulation, pushing for privatization, denial of climate change etc. Things are significantly worse because of electing that retard

[Anonymous No.10674922]

>>10674882
Go back to plebbit, soyboy

[Anonymous No.10674935]

>>10674882
dude, obamacare is basically the definition of corporatism, force citizens to buy goods and services from a private company...obama killing american citizens via drone strike, bombing of libya, etc. obama was the worst, get a clue

[Anonymous No.10675007]

>>10673714
You all keep making this Whitman cum meme but he actually wrote about this

28
Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,
Unbuttoning my clothes, holding me by the bare waist,
Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture-fields,
Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,
They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,
No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.

The sentries desert every other part of me,
They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.

I am given up by traitors,
I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.

You villain touch! what are you doing? my breath is tight in its throat,
Unclench your floodgates, you are too much for me.

29
Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!
Did it make you ache so, leaving me?

Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,
Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.

Sprouts take and accumulate, stand by the curb prolific and vital,
Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden.

[Anonymous No.10675015]

>>10673714
Fuck you, how dare you try and take away this great work from us.

[Anonymous No.10675089]

Fuck off, Whitman is great.

1
IN cabin'd ships, at sea,
The boundless blue on every side expanding,
With whistling winds and music of the waves—the large imperious waves
Or some lone bark, buoy'd on the dense marine,
Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white sails,
She cleaves the ether, mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under
many a star at night,
By sailors young and old, haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
In full rapport at last.

2
Here are our thoughts—voyagers' thoughts,
Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said;
The sky o'erarches here—we feel the undulating deck beneath our feet,
We feel the long pulsation—ebb and flow of endless motion;
The tones of unseen mystery—the vague and vast suggestions of the
briny world—the liquid-flowing syllables,
The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy rhythm,
The boundless vista, and the horizon far and dim, are all here,
And this is Ocean's poem.

3
Then falter not, O book! fulfil your destiny!
You, not a reminiscence of the land alone,
You too, as a lone bark, cleaving the ether—purpos'd I know not whither,
yet ever full of faith,
Consort to every ship that sails—sail you!
Bear forth to them, folded, my love —(dear mariners, for you I fold it here
in every leaf;)
Speed on, my Book! spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart the
imperious waves!
Chant on—sail on—bear o'er the boundless blue, from me, to every sea
This song for mariners and all their ships.

[Anonymous No.10675111]

>>10675089
that was good but i still dislike him

[Anonymous No.10675191]

>tfw this is the only book of English poetry that you own
>tfw you keep it by your bedside for comfort
>tfw not even American but it's so good
Why even read other poetry when I can just experience more papa Walt?

[Anonymous No.10675204]

>>10673976
KEK

[Anonymous No.10675317]

>>10674935
youre literally forced to buy goods from a private company in every aspect of your life

[Anonymous No.10675406]

He was honest and brave.