Walt Whitman's Influences-complete

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Question 8:

Is Walt Whitman still relevant today?

Why? Trace his influences.

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Whitmans

Ideology

Equality Unity

Unconventional

Democracy Individualism

Celebrates

Nature


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Literary Figures

1.WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1948)

According to Trachtenberg (n.d.),

William Carlos Williams- when he enteredthe University of Pennsylvania in 1902 he

brought Leaves of Grass with him, absorbed

it with enthusiasm, and kept a Whitmaniannotebook in which he jotted down quick

spontaneous poems. (p.197)


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Williams considered this notebook as a secret

notebook, What the secret notebooks

represented, Williams desire to write a poetrythat was simple, direct and passional,

eventually prevailed and guided Williams to

the discovery or invention of his own voice.(p.197)

Among his poems- As the cat (12 lines)

Play (3 lines)


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E.g.

Play

Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,

by what devious means do you contrive

to remain idle? Teach me, O master


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2. Ezra Pound

He gives credit to Whitman for opening up newpossibilities for the use of poetic language.

Ezra Pound was impressed by the way Whitman

proposed the language of poetry.

He abandoned the traditional forms of poetryand wrote in free verse.

His lines don't rhyme, they have no consistentmeter, and they're not even close to the samelength.


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Very much influenced by Whitman;

What I Feel About Walt Whitman (1909)

A Pact (1915)

One of Pounds work that is believed to beinfluenced by Whitman is an epic poem The

Cantos.

This poem is a document of the rise, reign,

and fall of a literary style, a generation of

artists, and a way of life.


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The Cantos by Ezra Pound

AND then went down to the ship,Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, andWe set up mast and sail on that swart ship,Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies alsoHeavy with weeping, and winds from sternwardBore us out onward with bellying canvas,Circe's this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.

Then sat we amidships, wind jamming the tiller,Thus with stretched sail, we went over sea till day's end.Sun to his slumber, shadows o'er all the ocean,Came we then to the bounds of deepest water,To the Kimmerian lands, and peopled cities

Covered with close-webbed mist, unpierced everWith glitter of sun-raysNor with stars stretched, nor looking back from heavenSwartest night stretched over wretched men there.


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3. Martin Espada

He is a 2005 award-winning poet.

One of todays poets that belong to

Whitmanic tradition.

He views Whitman as the founder ofAmerican poetry.

He claims that Whitman is different from

other poets.Whitman is saying what hes saying, that he

means what he means.


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"Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100" by Martn Espada

Alabanza. Praise the cook with a shaven head

and a tattoo on his shoulder that said Oye,a blue eyed Puerto Rican with people from Fajardo,the harbor of pirates centuries ago.Praise the lighthouse in Fajardo, candleglimmering white to worship the dark saint of the sea.

Alabanza. Praise the cooks yellow Pirates capworn in the name of Roberto Clemente, his planethat flamed into the ocean loaded with cans forNicaragua,for all the mouths chewing the ash of earthquakes.Alabanza. Praise the kitchen radio, dial clickedeven before the dial on the oven, so that music andSpanishrose before bread. Praise the bread.Alabanza.


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Political Leaders

1. Barack ObamaDemocracy

Democracy is a political government either

carried out directly by the people (directdemocracy) or by means of elected

representatives of the people (Representative

democracy). There are two principles of democracy:

equality and freedom.


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An excerpt ofObamas speech

There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't

agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we

know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always

be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to

you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to

join in the work of remaking this nation

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people

tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our

nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our

wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: Democracy,

Iiberty, opportunity and unyielding hope


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Freedom Freedom for people to choose their life

partner and ways of life: Homosexual,heterosexual or bisexual.

I am not somebody who promotes same-sex

marriage, but I do believe in civil unions. I do believewhen gay partners want to visit each other in thehospital, the state should say you know what, thatsall right, I dont think in any way inhibits my corebeliefs about what marriage is. My faith is strongenough and my marriage is strong enough that I canafford to give those civil rights to others, even if I havea different perspective or a different view.

(Readers digest, February 2009)


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From the White House Web site:

President Obama supports full civil unions that

give same-sex couples legal rights and privilegesequal to those of married couples. Obama alsobelieves we need to repeal the Defense ofMarriage Act and enact legislation that would

ensure that the federal legal rights and benefitscurrently provided on the basis of marital statusare extended to same-sex couples in civil unionsand other legally-recognized unions. These rights

and benefits include the right to assist a lovedone in times of emergency, the right to equalhealth insurance and other employment benefits,

and property rights.


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2. Dato' Seri Najib bin Tun Razak

Unity The concept of 1Malaysia proposed by Malaysian

Prime Minister Dato' Seri Mohd Najib bin Tun

Haji Abdul Razak. It has the similar concept with Whitmans poem

which is the sense of unity.

In Whitmans poem, he praised the individual ashe imagined a democratic nation as a unified

whole composed of unique but equal individuals.


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1Malaysia is a concept to foster unity and

underlines the value of "Acceptance" amongst

its multi-racial people, where one raceembraces the uniqueness of other races so that

we may live with mutual respect for each other

as a nation.

Voices from other races are not left out and

they still receive the same justice and welfare.

Malaysians will be looked after, leaving no one

behind despite from the different ethnicity.


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Entertainment

American Movies

e.g. Wall-E and I Now Pronounce You,

Chuck and Larry

Allahyarham Yasmine Ahmad


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Wall-E


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I Now Pronounce You, Chuck and

Larry


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Allahyarham Yasmine Ahmad

Anak muda sekarang dituduh

tidak menghargai

perjuangan1957, saya fikir

ini bagus. Cukuplah

generasi tua saja yangmerasakan kesengsaraan

masa itu. Mengapa

generasi muda dipaksa

merasakanya juga?

(Teroris Bahasa, Saharil

Hasrin Sanin, )


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Students

Democracy SRC - Voting rights

Freedom and IndividualityChoices in determining your own study plan

-Which lecturer

-Which subject

-What time

Unity

All foreign and local students live in peace


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ReferencesCargill, O. (1941). Intellectual America: Ideas on the March.

London: Macmillan & Co.

Miller, P. (1957). The American transcendentalists, their proseand poetry. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books.

Saharil Hasrin Sanin (2008). Teroris bahasa. Kuala Lumpur:Matahari Books.

Trachtenberg,A.(n.d.). Walt Whitman: Precipitant of theModern. In Greenspan,E(Ed.), The Cambridge companionto Whitman (p.197). Cambridge: Press Syndicate of theUniversity of Cambridge.

Warren, R. (2009, February). President Obama on good andevil and a better world. Reports on Readers DigestMagazine, pp 38-44.


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