So this is the great "father of free verse" I've been hearing so much about
Didn’t you know? When you’re a writer and have a bridge named after you, you’re automatically a genius, even if you weren’t one before. I don’t make the rules.
The more I read about Walt Whitman the less and lessI liked him. He really was a degenerate, loathsome person.
>>25222167>>25222179Pound was entirely correct about Whitman
>>25222184What did he say?
I thought Whitman was a queer.. is this just another example of modern academics claiming everyone of note in history as part of their liberal fag cult?
'I am Walt Whitman' ---Walt Whitman
Truly I was... Walt Whitman.
>>25222186https://poets.org/text/what-i-feel-about-walt-whitmanYou can also read "A Pact" which is a more 'mature' conciliatory work but this is much better.
>>25222223Right about Whitman, wrong about Milton, guess we can’t all be perfect
>>25222167this is unironically a great poem. Ofc this board is filled with rubes on whom it's wasted
the only people I ever hear talking about whitman are americans. why is that?
>>25222184>Nazi was correct about non-Nazi
>>25222167I don't see the problem. He has far worse poems than this.
>>25222167Whitman was just a meme, long before people knew what memes were.
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>>25222559Many such cases
