Comments on: Whitman’s Song as a Cloud

By: Dan TG

Dan TG — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:06:33 +0000

POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;
But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
Arouse! Arouse—for you must justify me—you must answer.

– Whitman, Poets to Come

Truer words were never spoke…

Keep it up, Norway!

By: Abdul-Razzaq A. Aqrawi

Abdul-Razzaq A. Aqrawi — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:02:47 +0000

“I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”

“My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,”

“Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?”

“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,”

“You are also asking me questions and I hear you, answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.”

By: Mr. Quale

Mr. Quale — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:33:45 +0000

Nice job so far. Keep ‘em coming. My personal favorite is the one Elizabeth found: “I accept Reality and dare not question it.” (This should have been one of our TOK quotes last week . . .)

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:48:30 +0000

“I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you”

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself/
And what I assume you assume,/
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself”

“My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths”

“Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?”

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:17:56 +0000

“Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn”

“I resist any thing better than my own diversity”

“I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to b the poet of wickedness also”

“I accept Reality and dare not question it”

“To be in any form, what is that?”

“Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself”

By: Declan

Declan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:13:34 +0000

“All goes onwards and outward, nothing collaspes”

“And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier”

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”

“Whoever degrades another degrades me.”

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:31:19 +0000

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” – this is from song of myself
I found another one on the internet by Whitman which is not from Song of Myself but I like it a lot:
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

By: Mr. Quale

Mr. Quale — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:50:09 +0000

Two more (the first one from class today):

“That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse”

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself.”

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:17:40 +0000

“Urge and Urge and Urge”

By: Mr. McCauley

Mr. McCauley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:08:40 +0000

“I inhale great draughts of space”

other great ones:

“I am grandeur than I thought”

“I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines”