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What do you think of this guy, lit?

>> No.6568378

>>6568371
there is a big bronze bust of whitman at the university of chicago and i swear it looks just like karl marx. i used to lead prospective student tours there and would always tell them that it was karl marx, no one ever corrected me even though in the corner there's a plaque what says walt whitman

i liked his one big famous poem, that's all i've read of him, but seems like a pretty cool dude

>> No.6568539

I don't like him, he's too in love with himself.

>> No.6568547

>>6568539
And so with you my man

>> No.6568550

>>6568539
You must to separate the art from the artist ya anon

>> No.6568552

>>6568539
He used to recite his own poetry on the street, randomly.

>> No.6568558

Best American poet. Dickenson doesn't come close.

>> No.6568574

I really like his poetry. Not difficult to read, so you can get easily what is his intentions.
Makes me happy.

>> No.6568660

>>6568558
Pleb

>> No.6568678
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6568678

He's easily one of my favorite poets of all time. Song of Myself is the definitive American poem.

>>6568574
His intentions can be easy to pick up on, but the magic of Whitman is that you can always go deeper.

>>6568660
He's right. You're the pleb.

>> No.6568695
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6568695

>I am large. I contain multitudes.

>> No.6568736

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,
And that a kelson of the creation is love,
And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap’d stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.

god tier

>> No.6569389

>>6568678
Dickinson is equivalently good at what is essentially the opposite poetic mode, but the same subjects, society, religion, and the self. To dismiss either of them is foolhardy. They both have their bad poems, yeah, Dickinson's are cute and opaque, Whitman's are rambling and trite.

>> No.6569390

>>6568539
he loved himself but he loved you too

>> No.6569393

>>6568371
we just had one of these threads. check the catalog

>> No.6569402

>>6568695
>I guess one might say that I am big. A Big Guy.

>> No.6569420

>>6568695
>two subway sandwiches uneaten
>literal bucket of ice-cream

Jesus christ how does he stay awake eating all those shitty carbs

>> No.6569444

>>6569420

>>two subway sandwiches uneaten

They're shopped into the pic, m8.

>> No.6570157

He knew a good piece of boypussy when he saw it

>> No.6571170

>>6568371
>Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed
>I am not a fan of books.
>I would never want a book's autograph.
>I am a proud non-reader of books.
>I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life
>~ Walt Whitman