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1、Walt Whitman,-The first real American poet By Prince,About his life,Job-many Wife-not any Sexuality-funny In the war-nanny Death-big ceremony,About his works,Franklin Evans (1842) his only novel, rag-to-riches story Leaves of Grass (1855) Drum-Taps (1865) patriotism, war, hospital Memoranda(備忘錄)Duri

2、ng the War Democratic Vistas (1871) work of comparative politics and letters,Grass leaves,Forty years, nine editions, four hundred poems emphasis on American culture, a distinctly American epic poem Not welcomed at first, under controversy for content about sex,Ones-Self I sing,我歌唱我自己 我歌唱一個人自己我歌唱一個人

3、自己，一個普通、單獨的人， 然而唱出的歌詞民主，歌詞意味整體。 我歌唱生理，從頭頂直到腳趾， 不單是相貌不單是頭腦才值得繆斯關(guān)注， 我說那完整的形體更有高得多的價值， 我歌唱男性也平等地歌唱女性。 我歌唱熱情洋溢、容易激動、力量無窮的生命 由于在神圣的法律下最自由的行動而興高采烈， 我歌唱這現(xiàn)代人。,O Captain! My Captain!,O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weatherd every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is nea

4、r, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.,O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise upfor you the flag is

5、flungfor you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbond wreathsfor you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; O captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck, Youve fallen cold and dead.,My Captain does not ans

6、wer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchord safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my c

7、aptain lies, Fallen cold and dead.,Features of his writing,breaks the boundaries of poetic form and is generally prose-like unusual images and symbols in his poetry openly wrote about death and sexuality, including prostitution,Assessment,“You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, w

8、ithout Leaves of Grass. He has expressed that civilization, up to date, as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him.”,The literary critic, Harold Bloom wrote, as the introduction for the 150th anniversary of Leaves of Grass: If you are American, then Walt Whitman

9、is your imaginative father and mother, even if, like myself, you have never composed a line of verse. You can nominate a fair number of literary works as candidates for the secular Scripture of the United States. They might include Melvilles Moby-Dick, Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Emersons two series of Essays and The Conduct of Life. None of those, not even Emersons, are as centra