Tag Archives: Leaves of Grass
5 CONCLUSION (Part 20)
5 CONCLUSION (Part 20) From “Passage to India,” published in 1871, we bring two excerpts to illustrate what the true son of God, the poet, is singing: God’s purpose. This means that in this poem he is not singing the … Continue reading
5 CONCLUSION (Part 19)
5 CONCLUSION (Part 19) “Memories of President Lincoln” was composed in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, and was published together with Drum-Taps that same year. Everything that Whitman presents in the poem “When Lilacs…” actually took … Continue reading
5 CONCLUSION (Part 15)
5 CONCLUSION (Part 15) The next poem, “Youth, Day, Old Age and Night,” must be quoted in full, since it has only four lines. This short poem is what was left of the poem “Great Are the Myths” from the … Continue reading
Ph.D.
Dear readers, my resumé page shows that I have been doing a doctorate in poetic translation since 2005. The good news is that I have finished it, and got my Ph.D. I have got an A with honors!
A NOTE ON POETIC TRANSLATION
A Note On Poetic Translation —
TRACES OF GREEK LITERATURE IN AMERICA
Image via Wikipedia INSCRIPTIONS, EPIGRAPHY, EIDOLON, CATALOGUES —
REVISIONS, PERCEPTION, MOVEMENT, CHANGE
REVISIONS, PERCEPTION, MOVEMENT, CHANGE — — There has been much controversy (see Roy Harvey Pearce, “Whitman Justified: The Poet in 1860″, in Modern Critical Views, 1985) about the changes made by Whitman in Leaves of Grass during his life. His … Continue reading
WHITMAN AND THE DIVINE SOUL OF MAN
SEARCHING FOR WHOLENESS, OR DIVINITY The passage “Do I contradict myself? / Very well, then, I contradict myself. / I am large, I contain multitudes.”, from section 51 of “Song of Myself”, is a true picture of Whitman and the … Continue reading
