greykit.poetry — #democracy

• 1860 [walt-whitman] I Hear America Singing
  Leaves of Grass

  Whitman hears the varied carols of America — carpenter, mason, boatman, shoemaker — each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else.

  #lyric#America#democracy#labor#1860s
• 1855 [walt-whitman] Song of Myself
  Leaves of Grass

  Whitman's great democratic epic — celebrating himself, and through himself, every atom of every person — sprawling across 52 sections from the grass at his feet to the spotted hawk's yawp over the roofs of the world.

  #epic#self#nature#democracy#cosmos#1850s