PPT-Whitman’s Style

The Catalog Poem Free Verse Poetry that has no set rhythm meter or pattern These poems still have rhythm but the rhythm depends on the diction and syntax Catalog Poem A poem that is a long list of things people or events . AddressreprintrequeststoDr.SarahWhitman,8627GermantownAve-nue,Philadelphia,PA19118.E-mail:Sarah.Whitman@drexelmed.edu What are some of the basic beliefs of the Transcendentalists?. Today’s Objective:. Reinforce what you learned about the Transcendentalists and their beliefs. Learn the definition of Free Verse.. Analyze how Walt Whitman and his poetry exemplifies Transcendentalist ideas.. You have all studied The Civil War in history classes. Take a minute with your VERTICAL partner to discuss the following:. What effect did The Civil War have on our country as a whole?. What effect do you think it might have on literature in our country?. “Song of Myself”. Civil War Poetry. May 31, . 1819. West Hills. Long Island. This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your live, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem…. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”. Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. . Crafting the American Ideal . and. Thesis . In his poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Walt Whitman expresses his idealistic view of American patriotism and spirit through his symbolism of the lilac, star, and bird, and his celebration of Abraham Lincoln and the soldiers of the Civil War. . . and. . Transcendentalist. Analysis . by. . Teja. . Wiggins. -. McKinney. . and. . Anna Katogiritis. Miracles-Walt Whitman. Why, who makes much of a miracle?. . As . to me I know of nothing else but miracles,. What are some of the basic beliefs of the Transcendentalists?. Today’s Objective:. Reinforce what you learned about the Transcendentalists and their beliefs. Learn the definition of Free Verse.. Analyze how Walt Whitman and his poetry exemplifies Transcendentalist ideas.. 32 teacher.” — Walt Whitman “Most children in school are scared most of the time.” — John Holt “Much of what we say and do in school only makes children feel that th Critically Genius Minded Symposium:. Dealing with Chopin, Hughes, Frost, and Whitman. Host: Brandon J. Geter. Panels:. Dealing with Chopin, Hughes, Frost, and Whitman. Psycho-Emotional. Socio-Environmental. C&C. In everything we undertake, either on earth or in the sky, we have a choice of two styles, which I call the gray and the green. The distinction between the gray and green is not sharp. Only at the extremes of the spectrum can we say without qualification, this is green and that is gray. The difference between green and gray is better explained by examples than by definitions. Factories are gray, gardens are green. Physics is gray, biology is green. Plutonium is gray, horse manure is green. Bureaucracy is gray, pioneer communities are green. Self-producing machines are gray, trees and children are green. Human technology is gray, God’s technology is green. Army manuals are gray, poems are green.. From . Leaves of Grass . by Walt Whitman. What IS “Song of Myself”?. It is part autobiography and part wish projection. . It recapitulates how a man of many roles becomes a poet, and how a poet becomes a god (sort of. and try to figure out what the term “transcendentalism” might mean.. With a partner, make . a . list on your board: . What . does a person have to . believe. in order to be a transcendentalist? . Justin Waters. Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. .. History . Born May 31, 1819 in Long Island.. Second of nine children.. Served as publisher, editor, pressman, and . Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Walt . Whitman, p.508. 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass – controversial content and revolutionary form. Of 800 copies printed – most were thrown away. In a letter to Whitman from Emerson, Emerson said, “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed”.