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muddying the distinctions between man and beast
V similar to the descriptions given to Africans at this point in history. In essence, the Irish were seeing the English turn on them as they had the African people.
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- Nov 2021
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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It has been argued that Dickinson refused publication exactly because it was synonymous with print, whose standardizing tendencies she knew would miscarry her precision effects.
Although this article has already refuted the idea of Dickinson as some mystical recluse, this passage does wonders for dispelling that idea. If this is true, it would be endlessly fascinating to know which poems she would have published if she'd known them to be kept well.
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www.poetryfoundation.org www.poetryfoundation.org
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The final call to leave whatever stalls you and a plea to bind yourself to Whitman, or at least his ways.
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The difficulties that lie ahead. A call to be vigil and expect hurt, to carry your weapons of stregnth.
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Something of an overview. Here he says again what it means to go out on the road, that you will leave behind your lovers and friends, that you will be ever-feeling.
Then he speaks to the reader, calling us to him, bidding us wake and follow. It is useless to resist; we must follow Whitman.
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To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
Reminds me of Invisible Cities. You will bring the images of the city with you forever.
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On the fantastic people that you will travel with and amidst.
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What the Open Road promises is not material satisfaction, but spiritual satisfaction.
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Personal freedom and divinity. Mingling amidst the masses.
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From all that has touch’d you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
Interconnectedness and spirituality
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Reveling in the simple things and finding joy within them.
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The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas’d, the illiterate person, are not denied; The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar’s tramp, the drunkard’s stagger, the laughing party of mechanics, The escaped youth, the rich person’s carriage, the fop, the eloping couple, The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town, They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted, None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.
Although some iffy language, the message is progressive
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- Sep 2020
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ilearn.gavilan.edu ilearn.gavilan.edu
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It seemed that way in the 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement, when America itself felt as if it might burst at the seams-so much tension, so many storms. But the people of conscience never left the house. They never ran away. They stayed, they came together and they did the best they could, clasping hands and moving toward the corner of the house that was the weakest.
This is an amazing metaphor.
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