{"id":2061,"date":"2013-02-05T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:45:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:45:47","slug":"walt-whitman-leaves-of-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/02\/05\/walt-whitman-leaves-of-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relating to CC202’s study of Walt Whitman’s work, here is an extract of the article by Claire Kelley on the poet’s whereabouts while he was writing in 1855:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhitman-iacs\u201d like NYU Professor\u00a0Karen Karbiener have paid their respects to the ghost of Walt Whitman by visiting the unassuming white house that stands one story taller than the others next to it…\u00a0As Berman says, “Anybody who has spent a little time over \u201cLeaves of Grass\u201d ought to be able to understand why one or another long-lost building associated with Whitman might incite a bit of feeling.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the full article, visit\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/WMrlVr<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a sample from\u00a0the poem\u00a0Song of Myself, <\/em>from\u00a0Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass:<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
\nAnd what I assume you shall assume,
\nFor every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.<\/p>\n

I loafe and invite my soul,
\nI lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.<\/p>\n

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
\nBorn here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
\nparents the same,I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
\nHoping to cease not till death.<\/p>\n

Creeds and schools in abeyance,
\nRetiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
\nI harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
\nNature without check with original energy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Relating to CC202’s study of Walt Whitman’s work, here is an extract of the article by Claire Kelley on the poet’s whereabouts while he was writing in 1855: \u201cWhitman-iacs\u201d like NYU Professor\u00a0Karen Karbiener have paid their respects to the ghost of Walt Whitman by visiting the unassuming white house that stands one story taller than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,477,2534],"tags":[179,3831,37549,37507,3830,438,37552,4298,37550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}