BOLD, CAUTIOUS, TRUE - Katonah Museum of Art
... already been through three editions. He later claimed that his book and the Civil War were one, a puzzling comment given that so much of it had been written before the fighting ever started. But Leaves of Grass had been an appeal to American unity and a call for the country to resist sectional diffe ...
... already been through three editions. He later claimed that his book and the Civil War were one, a puzzling comment given that so much of it had been written before the fighting ever started. But Leaves of Grass had been an appeal to American unity and a call for the country to resist sectional diffe ...
Caresser of Life: Walt Whitman and the Civil War
... Editor's Note: This essay is from the first chapter of Jerome Loving's new critical biography of Whitman, Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself, to be published by University of California Press. ...
... Editor's Note: This essay is from the first chapter of Jerome Loving's new critical biography of Whitman, Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself, to be published by University of California Press. ...
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... the South. At the same time, many Southerners felt great resentment toward the North. After the war, President Lincoln hoped to heal the nation and bring North and South together again. The generous terms of surrender offered to Lee were part of that effort. Hard feelings remained, however, in part ...
... the South. At the same time, many Southerners felt great resentment toward the North. After the war, President Lincoln hoped to heal the nation and bring North and South together again. The generous terms of surrender offered to Lee were part of that effort. Hard feelings remained, however, in part ...
17-4 The Legacy of the War
... One of the greatest American poets, Walt Whitman (below) was a large, bearded man whose poetry captured the American spirit. His most famous book of poems, Leaves of Grass, praised the values of freedom and democracy. Whitman was 41 when the Civil War began. Too old for the army, he offered his serv ...
... One of the greatest American poets, Walt Whitman (below) was a large, bearded man whose poetry captured the American spirit. His most famous book of poems, Leaves of Grass, praised the values of freedom and democracy. Whitman was 41 when the Civil War began. Too old for the army, he offered his serv ...
UNIt3Preview Unit Goals
... to become heroes. The mood was nearly festive on the sunny July day when fresh A Voice from the Times Union forces marched south into Virginia to confront the rebels at Bull Run. Soldiers wandered from their lines to pick blackberries Future years will never know the and drink cool water from the cr ...
... to become heroes. The mood was nearly festive on the sunny July day when fresh A Voice from the Times Union forces marched south into Virginia to confront the rebels at Bull Run. Soldiers wandered from their lines to pick blackberries Future years will never know the and drink cool water from the cr ...
From Romanticism to Realism
... to become heroes. The mood was nearly festive on the sunny July day when fresh A Voice from the Times Union forces marched south into Virginia to confront the rebels at Bull Run. Soldiers wandered from their lines to pick blackberries Future years will never know the and drink cool water from the cr ...
... to become heroes. The mood was nearly festive on the sunny July day when fresh A Voice from the Times Union forces marched south into Virginia to confront the rebels at Bull Run. Soldiers wandered from their lines to pick blackberries Future years will never know the and drink cool water from the cr ...
“O Captain! My Captain!” Walt Whitman
... person’s death. Whitman’s elegy honors President Abraham Lincoln. Like most Americans, Whitman was shocked and saddened by Lincoln’s death. After leading the United States through the long, dark days of the Civil War, Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathizer. Lincoln’ ...
... person’s death. Whitman’s elegy honors President Abraham Lincoln. Like most Americans, Whitman was shocked and saddened by Lincoln’s death. After leading the United States through the long, dark days of the Civil War, Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathizer. Lincoln’ ...
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd is a long poem in the form of an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) in 1865.The poem, written in free verse in 206 lines, uses many of the literary techniques associated with the pastoral elegy. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning in the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Despite the poem being an elegy to the fallen president, Whitman neither mentions Lincoln by name nor discusses the circumstances of his death. Instead, Whitman uses a series of rural and natural imagery including the symbols of the lilacs, a drooping star in the western sky (Venus), and the hermit thrush, and employs the traditional progression of the pastoral elegy in moving from grief toward an acceptance and knowledge of death. The poem also addresses the pity of war through imagery vaguely referencing the American Civil War (1861–1865) which ended only days before the assassination.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd was written ten years after publishing the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and it reflects a maturing of Whitman's poetic vision from a drama of identity and romantic exuberance that has been tempered by his emotional experience of the American Civil War. Whitman included the poem as part of a quickly-written sequel to a collection of poems addressing the war that was being printed at the time of Lincoln's death. These poems, collected under the title Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps, range in emotional context from ""excitement to woe, from distant observation to engagement, from belief to resignation"" and ""more concerned with history than the self, more aware of the precariousness of America's present and future than of its expansive promise."" First published in autumn 1865, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd—along with 42 other poems from Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps—was absorbed into Leaves of Grass beginning with the fourth edition, published in 1867.Although Whitman did not consider the poem to be among his best works, it is compared in both effect and quality to several masterpieces of English literature, including elegies such as John Milton 's Lycidas (1637) and Percy Bysshe Shelley 's Adonaïs (1821).