1. Literary nationalism: respond to Emerson's call for American bard in "The Poet"; was regarded as "A poet of democracy/ urban"
2. Whitman revolutionalized American poetry with his "free verse" with his meter- making argument. ....more emphasized on context, emotion, pespectives rather meter.
3. He put the living, breathing, sexual image at the cent er of much of his poetry so as to be accused of being obsence and immoral.
4. "Song of Myself" explores and celebrates the possibilities for communion between individuals and between the self and the universe. The capital "I" was the beginning word in several sentences showing that Whitman has a great emphasis on "individual". This was pretty different from E.E. Cummings's literacy usage. He usually use "i" through his work as he thought about how SMALL the human is.
5. The reason whitman will use some nature as a dicption through his poetry is because he believes that we should use body to feel the world around us. [← Transcendentalism]
1. The founding father of the Southern myth→ Southern Gothic Writing style (受到William Faulker的影響)
2. He believed poetry should "appeal only to the sense of beauty" without regared to didactic purposes and realistic details. →反對文以載道
3. The Raven→ ill omen, bad omen
the overall tone of melancholy
The sonorous refrain of "nevermore"("o" as the most sonorous vowel + "r" as the most producible consonant = a mesmeric force.)
[A Narrow Fellow in the Grass] ←草中細長的傢伙
http://www.shmoop.com/narrow-fellow-in-the-grass/
Semiotics/ metaphor: comb, snake. dionysus, zero...
onomatopoetia →"A spotted Shaft is seen", the "hiss" sounds.
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