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I think Walt Whitman is a great poet. I know he doesn't write in meter or rhyme and shit and he was bisexual or whatever but I still think he's great. Here are some of my favorite from Leaves of Grass. I wish you anons well.

"Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.

The earth, that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations any nearer,
I know they are very well where they are,
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,
I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,
I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
I am fill’d with them; and I will fill them in return.)"

“I think heroic deeds were all conceiv’d in the open air, and all free poems also,
I think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
I think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever beholds
me shall like me,
I think whoever I see must be happy.”

“I am larger, better than I thought,
I did not know I held so much goodness.”

“I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”

“What do you think has become of the young and old men?
And what do you think has become of the women and children?

They are alive and well somewhere,
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
And if there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
And ceas’d the moment life appear’d.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

"I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also."

And my last and most favorite for reasons I cannot fully communicate:

“Agonies are one of my changes of garments,
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,"

>> No.12675205

>>12675190
I've been reading a few 19th century American poets lately and wondering how it happened that poetry died between then and now

>> No.12675220

>>12675205
Capitalism

>> No.12675223

>>12675190
>I do not want the constellations any nearer,
>I know they are very well where they are,
>I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

I'm too retarded to say anything of substance but I really like these words. Whitman had a way with those brief and profound phrases, "I do not want the constellations any nearer," is beautiful.

>> No.12675493

>>12675190
Read song of myself today. It was nice and big.

>> No.12675557

Anyone have the poem from “Song of Myself” that’s about an amputation and sinking ship which ends something like “These things too, departed.” Can’t remember the actual poem just remember it wasmy favorite (only read it once).

>> No.12675622

>>12675220
I wish capitalism would kill you too

>> No.12675631

>>12675205
Poetry now is doing great

>> No.12675722

>>12675631
Give me some suggestions, then

>> No.12675727

>>12675722
for someone like Whitman or do you have a Poet you'd rather me jump off of?

>> No.12675789

>>12675190
>I know he doesn't write in meter or rhyme and shit and he was bisexual or whatever but I still think he's great.

What does that have to do with anything?

>> No.12675825

>>12675789
Those are common reasons for poets and authors to attract criticism here.

>> No.12675908

>>12675727
Whitman, Poe, Melville, Longfellow

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>All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

I used to think Whitman was some boring, long-winded fag, too. But the succinctness of it makes it sound so modern and I haven’t been touched this much in a Carl’s Jr. since junior year of high school.

Thank you for opening my eyes op. You’re doing jew god’s work

>> No.12676027

>he doesn't write in meter

He does.

>> No.12676109

>>12676027
Sometimes yes, I know.

>> No.12676115

>>12675974
>All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
>And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Damn, that is good. Thanks anons, I should have given Whitman a chance.

>> No.12676128

>>12676027
good post