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American authors:
dont study Spanish neither Hispanic authors And what about African
of the most important american poets, he influenced Eliot, Neruda, Pound, Borges He was middle-class, he worked as printer, journalist, charpenter, public servant, teacher Hard beginnings His masterpiece: Leaves of Grass, translated into Spanish by Len Felipe
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Leaves
of Grass was a scandalous work. Sexual poetry, plenty of love for life, Nature and women. Bisexuality? Plot: a man watches, faces the world and sings whitout prejudices, with freedom Coral heroe: not the individual human being, but the group, the society.
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Whitman
was the poet of the american democracy. He sang the immensity of american Nature, he loved Freedom and Equality, he was Lincoln and Jeffersons heir
Selected poems
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite my soul, 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, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abbeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
(In the preface to Leaves of Grass) (...) A new order shall arise, and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest (...)
I am satisfiedI see, dance, laugh, sing: As the hugging and loving Bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day, with stealthy tread,
Leaving me baskets coverd with white towels, swelling the house with their plenty,
Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization, and scream at my eyes, That they turn from gazing after and down the road, And forthwith cipher and show me a cent,
Exactly the contents of one, and exactly the contents of two, and which is ahead?