Philosophy
The poetic style of free verse was born from the iconoclastic mind of Walt Whitman, an American poet who embodied the concepts of individualism and defiance to his core.
On the one hand, the invention of free verse made it possible for geniuses such as William Butler Yeats, T.S. Elliot, Wallace Stevens and Thomas Hardy to explore and harvest a fascinating literary space previously uncharted. On the other hand, and because of its apparent lack of constraint, free style may have also marked the slow death and collapse of poetry as a fine art: just look at much of what passes for "poetry" today.
However you may feel about free verse, though, it is hard to deny Walt Whitman's brilliance, which we get to celebrate today (this being his birthday) with a short excerpt from his famous poem "Song of Myself," read by none other than Darth Va... I mean James Earl Jones
Go ahead and contradict yourself, Walt, it's your birthday :)
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- Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
130 years ago today, in a world which no longer could be seriously understood as the effect or providence of the deliberate choice of a deity with a comprehensible, or even a coherent plan, one of the first men to viscerally understand and feel the essence...
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Philosophy
Walt Whitman - Song of Myself
On the one hand, the invention of free verse made it possible for geniuses such as William Butler Yeats, T.S. Elliot, Wallace Stevens and Thomas Hardy to explore and harvest a fascinating literary space previously uncharted. On the other hand, and because of its apparent lack of constraint, free style may have also marked the slow death and collapse of poetry as a fine art: just look at much of what passes for "poetry" today.
However you may feel about free verse, though, it is hard to deny Walt Whitman's brilliance, which we get to celebrate today (this being his birthday) with a short excerpt from his famous poem "Song of Myself," read by none other than Darth Va... I mean James Earl Jones
Go ahead and contradict yourself, Walt, it's your birthday :)
- Space, Time, And Celebration
Today is my birthday and I've been thinking about the way we celebrate people. When people are alive, we celebrate them in time -- birthdays, anniversaries, and the like. But when people die, we celebrate them in space -- grave sites, accident sites,...
- What Is Philosophical Mysticism?
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass. ? Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death?. It is form and union and plan?.it ...
- Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
130 years ago today, in a world which no longer could be seriously understood as the effect or providence of the deliberate choice of a deity with a comprehensible, or even a coherent plan, one of the first men to viscerally understand and feel the essence...
- Walt Whitman Wrote About "the Strange Huge Meteor-procession"
On the evening of July 20, 1860, a meteor fragmented during its nearly-horizontal passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and became a fireball procession, the subject of a painting by Frederic Church and a poem by Walt Whitman. LEAVES OF GRASS BOOK...
- Reflections On Whitman's "when I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer"
"A Reading of 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' by Walt Whitman" by Christopher Nield March 24th, 2010 The Epoch Times When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer When I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were...