Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study of EcopoeticsUniversity of Iowa Press, 1 груд. 2004 р. - 238 стор. Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas’d corpses, It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor, It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops, It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last. —Walt Whitman, from “This Compost” How did Whitman use language to figure out his relationship to the earth, and how can we interpret his language to reconstruct the interplay between the poet and his sociopolitical and environmental world? In this first book-length study of Whitman’s poetry from an ecocritical perspective, Jimmie Killingsworth takes ecocriticism one step further into ecopoetics to reconsider both Whitman’s language in light of an ecological understanding of the world and the world through a close study of Whitman’s language. Killingsworth contends that Whitman’s poetry embodies the kinds of conflicted experience and language that continually crop up in the discourse of political ecology and that an ecopoetic perspective can explicate Whitman’s feelings about his aging body, his war-torn nation, and the increasing stress on the American environment both inside and outside the urban world. He begins with a close reading of “This Compost”—Whitman’s greatest contribution to the literature of ecology,” from the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. He then explores personification and nature as object, as resource, and as spirit and examines manifest destiny and the globalizing impulse behind Leaves of Grass, then moves the other way, toward Whitman’s regional, even local appeal—demonstrating that he remained an island poet even as he became America’s first urban poet. After considering Whitman as an urbanizing poet, he shows how, in his final writings, Whitman tried to renew his earlier connection to nature. Walt Whitman and the Earth reveals Whitman as a powerfully creative experimental poet and a representative figure in American culture whose struggles and impulses previewed our lives today. |
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... territory , new frontiers.5 The flavor of these lines , and the poem as a whole , oddly foreshadows the words of the notorious British imperialist Cecil Rhodes , who once said , " To think of the stars that you see overhead at night ...
... territory , new frontiers.5 The flavor of these lines , and the poem as a whole , oddly foreshadows the words of the notorious British imperialist Cecil Rhodes , who once said , " To think of the stars that you see overhead at night ...
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... territory at the seaside ) aspects of a personal crisis that ( the biographers tell us ) he suffered in the late 1850s , probably a 107 P The Island Poet and the Sacred Shore 108 AS The Island Poet and the Sacred Shore failed.
... territory at the seaside ) aspects of a personal crisis that ( the biographers tell us ) he suffered in the late 1850s , probably a 107 P The Island Poet and the Sacred Shore 108 AS The Island Poet and the Sacred Shore failed.
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... territorial defense of his own originality fit with the mockingbird analog as well . Though none of Whitman's sources appear to suggest it , the mockingbird is notoriously territorial and aggressive . In American literature from Phillip ...
... territorial defense of his own originality fit with the mockingbird analog as well . Though none of Whitman's sources appear to suggest it , the mockingbird is notoriously territorial and aggressive . In American literature from Phillip ...
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