Whitman wrote several poetic responses to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He came to detest his most famous, ‘O Captain! My Captain!’, and in ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd’ Lincoln ...
Walt Whitman's small notebook ... addressing this fragmentary poem to “Libertad.” The question of exactly why, instead of the English liberty, he used the Spanish word – as he did in ...
But you won’t find them in many text books, because high school poetry units tend to focus on dead poets, like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. North Carolina teacher Melissa Alter ...
Walt Whitman, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator, illus. by Susan L. Roth. National Geographic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6143-8 Excerpting the bulk of a poem included in a late edition of ...
So, if you want to appreciate poetry, you have to respect the roots. Buy at Amazon Modern American poetry arguably began with Walt Whitman, and his fluid, often manic but still joyful words spring off ...
24—In these fractious times, Santa Fe Pro Musica has gathered poets, musicians and actors to build community around the works of Walt Whitman ... version of Whitman's famous poem "Song of ...
246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station ... Interpretive Center Here visitors can delve deeply into Whitman’s life and poetry through a series of engaging exhibits that trace the poet ...