Walt Whitman has, among poetry in general, always been a comfort to me, and his poems have comforted many. More importantly, his poetry revolutionized poetry (along with the poems of Emily Dickinson); the two of them charted their own poetic voices, forms, topics, POVs, syntax, diction . . . everything. It is impossible to ignore their influence on all poetry written since they were writing.
This week's prompt asks you to look at the final section of Whitman's Song of Myself, which also happens...
Published on May 28, 2023 06:48