Walt Whitman “Song of Myself” Adam Gmez怀特曼《自我之歌》亚当G和243ó.pptVIP

Walt Whitman“Song of Myself” “It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.” (Humanities 4) Walt Whitman 1819-1892 Poet, journalist, volunteer nurse w/Union army Radical democracy Free verse Racial gender egalitarianism Freedom solidarity Sexuality Leaves of Grass, “Song of Myself” (1855) Obscenity * 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. * My tongue, every atom of my blood, formd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. * 2 Have you reckond a thousand acres much? have you reckond the earth much? Have you practisd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. * 3 I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. * 3 Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant