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Anonymous Sat Jul 4 11:45:32 2015 No.6777890 [Reply] [Original]

I Hear America Singing - Walt Whitman

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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe
and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off
work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the
deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing
as he stands,
The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the
morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at
work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young
fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
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Happy Independence Day, Americans!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:33:25 2015 No.6778684 >>6777890 who is this cum gummer?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:38:04 2015 No.6778699 >he looks like a mad man

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:40:07 2015 No.6778705 >>6777890 Thanks for reminding me to reread Leaves of Grass today, OP! Shame this thread hasn't gotten more replies, but I suppose there isn't much to discuss.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:40:08 2015 No.6778706 File: 117 KB, 320x263, fingerless-gloves-fedora.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >hmmph so what if I contradict myself, I'm large and contain multitudes whitman a shit

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Sat Jul 4 15:44:00 2015 No.6778721 >>6778706 Stupid Christ posters

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:46:34 2015 No.6778732 America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnMoUm87QII

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:48:05 2015 No.6778738 >>6778721 I'm an atheist actually you fucking newfag

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:53:30 2015 No.6778759 >>6778732 America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJq2DUyzSdg

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:55:09 2015 No.6778768 >>6778759 >>>/lgbt/ Get that disgusting talentless boy fucker off muh /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:55:45 2015 No.6778772 >>6778759 thread ruined DELETE THIS HACK E L E T E THIS HACK

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Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:57:13 2015 No.6778779

>>6778759
>1950's
>most glorious age for America
>somehow gay druggy hack beats find a way to complain that living a nice life in a nice economy with nice people in a powerful state is destroying them

Jesus, I wish the world would commence in a global book burning and forced thought-law against the Beats.

Fucking worthless hacks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 15:59:03 2015 No.6778787 >>6778772 >muh memes go to bed

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:00:28 2015 No.6778798 >>6778768 >>6778772 >>6778779 >>>/pol/

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:01:54 2015 No.6778804 >>6778759 >jewish >gay >drug addict >criminal >lack of any talent shit taste detected. the beats should be banned from /lit/ to be honest, they're YA tier

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:04:41 2015 No.6778820 >>6778804 I like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6ef3nE-E4 But I know he was really weird and had a lot of turds.

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Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:05:07 2015 No.6778823

>>6778804
>ooh muh cut up technique
>ooh muh cool way of saying a man in a suit
>ooh so edgy with muh heroin
>ooh so edgy with muh boifucking
>ooh so edgy with my hatred of society

the only thing a Beat ever did that was remotely good was dying, and even it was half assed because they should have been stillborn.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:06:44 2015 No.6778830 What's with the recent influx of /pol/tards?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:10:27 2015 No.6778845 >>6778830 Not a /pol/tard. Beat's are absolute fucking garbage though. And I for one would not mind a full blown censorship of them. It would be a positive on literature to completely remove them from the human experience.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:14:34 2015 No.6778866 >>6778845 So naive

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:16:23 2015 No.6778874 >>6778866 So pretentious

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:16:59 2015 No.6778878 >>6778830 >people who disagree with my juvenile taste and make fun of me should go back to /pol/ hmmm I wonder what website you're from?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:22:08 2015 No.6778900 >>6777890 The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. Read more at goat se dot info

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:23:40 2015 No.6778909 >>6778874 I don't care much for the beats either but if you take a look at all the people who were influenced by them you'll realize they were extremely important and influential. Well, maybe not you, but many people would.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 4 16:25:23 2015 No.6778917 >>6778878 It's not the disagreeing. >jewish >gay >boy fucker How are these relevant to the quality of his writing?

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