5 Walt Whitman Observations from Leaves of Grass (so far!)
My favorite copy of Leaves of Grass, with my glasses, on the arm of my Adirondack chair on my Mississippi front porch One of my current reads is Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (I'm usually reading several books at any given moment, as you probably do as well!) It's divided in sections, and so far I've read Inscriptions , Starting from Paumanok , and now I'm about halfway through Song of Myself . I only read it for 10 or 15 minutes at a time, and never allow myself to become bogged down or bored. Poetry is not very conducive to speed reading, so I don't even try. Of what I've read so far, I love parts of it and dislike others. I suppose that one of the goals of art is to get a reaction from the person experiencing it, and by that definition alone this is great stuff. Some Bumpkin observations: 1. He likes being outside. 2. He's a people watcher. 3. He likes being naked. 4. He truly loves and cares for everyone regardless of their race, social status, e...