Julie's review
Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
by Walt Whitman
Julie's review
Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics) by Walt Whitman
Julie's review
rating:
Walt Whitman is my favorite American poet. His poetry never dates itself. It is as contemporary as if he just wrote it last week. Walt Whitman's poems overflow with life, energy, beat and excitement, and contain deep though simply-told truths that rival those of any wise man in history. He never let his inhibitions hold back his writing and it sparkles with honesty. Walt Whitman was also a great patriot, who loved America. He sought it out on its own terms and recorded what he saw in his poetry. His war poems, written during the American Civil War, are some of the best war poems existing in literature. Whitman knew his subject, having spent much time caring for the wounded soldiers in the hospitals and visiting battlefields. His poems create vivid pictures, richly textured, as real as you read them as if you were seeing the scene yourself. And the dialog he carries on with the reader makes the reader feel that Whitman, if he were still alive, would like nothing more than to sit down an...more
