Whitman and Dickinson
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A brief comparison:
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关于风的词语Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were two major poets in late 19th century. The two are of entirely different visions （things en or thought with imagination or wisdom in the mind or in a dream or trance）, styles and personalities. Whitman desired to be a public poet and confidently addresd the public in his poetry. But during his lifetime he lost a significant part of the public who found him distasteful in certain respects. Dickinson, however, was private to the extent of being a reclu. Scarcely any of her poems were published in her lifetime. But posthumously the
伏羲大典greatness of both poets was firmly established and they proved to be the genuine precursors to the most rious modern American poetry.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
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Walt Whitman is no stranger to Chine readers. His poetry made a huge impact on Chine new poetry in the May Fourth Movement, especially on Guo Moruo. From Guo Moruo’s translations and Guo’s own early poetry that was modeled after Whitman, we will be able to feel, albeit vicariously, the sweeping power of Whitman’s rhythm and scope.
That Whitman’s poetry was a revolution in American literature can be en in the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855. This small volume of
twelve poems had a green cover that showed no name of the author. Opposite the title page, however, was an engraving of Whitman with a broad brimmed hat casually angled on the head, wearing an unbuttoned shirt and workingman’s trours. His eyes showed confidence. In the preface, Whitman introduced himlf as “Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos,/Disorderly fleshy and nsual/eating drinking and breeding/” ( 沃尔特惠特曼，一个美国人，一个粗人，一个宇宙人，具有混乱的肉体和欲望，也吃也喝也繁殖) The Preface continued to promote the nationalist enthusiasm characteristic of the time. “The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetic nature,”
declared Whitman with confidence, if not with some exaggeration. The United States themlves are
无异于esntially the greatest poem… Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadest doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.”From the poems included in this collection (the longest being “Song of Mylf”), we find a poet who is a fervent advocate for equality and democracy, a poet celebrating the people in villages and cities of America, a poet in love with a Nature embodying the Over-soul, and a poet who expresd the pleasures of x and the nsuality of the body. Whitman openly celebrates the “body electric,”the xual organs, and the act of x. He was one of the first poets to write about the masturbation, female eroticism,
homoxuality and the anguish of xual desire being represd.
打哈欠会传染吗The first edition met with quite a few negative comments. Longfellow and Lowell, two poets who thought themlves guardians of the moral conventions, wanted to have the xually frank wordings deleted from Whitman’s poetry. One London magazine commented that Leaves of Grass proved that the field of American literature was badly in need of weeding.
A London newspaper said that Whitman should be publicly flogged. But Emerson, in the minds of the negative reception, wrote Whitman an enthusiastic letter. The letter focud on the health-affirming a
nd fortifying effects of Whitman’s poetry, and said to the effect that the organic whole of Whitman’s poetry derved endorment from a Transcendentalist
