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Walt Whitman’s PoetrySome Approaches
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Anaphora: the repetition of the same word or words across successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.From “Song of Myself,” section 6:
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their
mothers’ laps.
• From “Song of Myself,” section 15:
And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
And such as it is to be of these more or less I am,
And of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
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Apostrophe: an address to someone or something not present
“O Captain! My Captain!”
From “Song of Myself,” section 51:
Listener up there! What have you to confide in me?
• From “To The States”:
Resist much, obey little…
• “To You”:
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?
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Turnaround Lines
From “Poet To Come”:
I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping,
turns a casual look upon you and then averts
his face…
(That’s all one line of verse, but it does not fit in the margins.)
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Free Verse: poetry of varying line lengths and no set meter or rhyme
Almost all of Walt Whitman’s poetry!
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Topics and Themes
Nonconformity
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Topics and Themes
Nonconformity
Embracing the common
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Topics and Themes
Nonconformity
Embracing the common
Love of America and democracy