My own voice, orotund sweeping and final
stanza above, the voice is extremely powerful- started universe here voice seems powerless in the city- just one of many citizens
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- Feb 2016
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whitmanarchive.org whitmanarchive.org
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And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
this stanza's sounds are all repeatable and orderly- comparing daily sounds to seasons, years, lifetimes, etc.
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And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away
Interesting how absent sound is in this chunk after the beginning focused almost solely on it.
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The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
This stanza is almost all Whitman incorporating sound into the natural and human world -every aspect of his life (Natural World, human interaction, human environment, body)
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- Jan 2016
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wp.nyu.edu wp.nyu.edu
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ItwasnotuntiltheRenaissancethatGodbecameportraiture.Previouslyhehadbeenconceivedassoundorvibration.
This is just really cool- its just accepted in present times that sight is and has always been the dominant form of info gathering- that society evolved away from this due to revoloutions like the printing press is telling that maybe society will evolve again
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Whichsoundsdowewanttopreserve,encourage,multiply?
Kind of the main question- how can we define noise pollution where the definition separates noises we want to hear from the ones we dont want to hear
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wp.nyu.edu wp.nyu.edu
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Tothinksonicallyistothink conjuncturallyaboutsoundandculture:eachofthewriters■!havequotedaboveusedsoundtoaskbigquestionsabouttheirculturalmomentsandthecrisesandproblemsoftheirtime.Soundstudies’challengeistothinkacrosssounds,toconsidersonicphenomenainrelationshiptooneanother—astjpesojsonicphenomenaratherthanasthings-in-themselves
sound studies is super interdependent with society and culture - society/culture create sound which changes society/culture so they create a new sound
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