How to Read the Poetry of Walt Whitman ('Song of Myself' Appreciation)

Benjamin McEvoy
Benjamin McEvoy
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0:00 the poetry of Walt Whitman
1:50 ‘you may contribute a verse’
4:15 appreciating ‘Song of Myself’
5:55 ‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself’
6:55 Whitman as controversial poet
7:30 poem as sublime American epic
8:30 poetic exploration of self-love
9:30 Whitman’s poet-reader relationship
10:45 is Whitman the father of free verse?
11:20 Walt Whitman’s biblical cadence
13:15 Whitman’s religious skepticism
14:20 Whitman’s celebration of the flesh
16:00 breaking free from sin and guilt
17:30 on making the senses heroic
18:00 ‘I loafe and invite my soul’
19:30 reminder to appreciate nature
20:00 three psychic agencies of self
20:30 ‘I am large, I contain multitudes’
21:10 rebirth after a midlife crisis
22:00 the poet of the nation is born
22:30 Whitman embraces the natural world
24:45 the sensual spirituality of Whitman
26:30 where shall wisdom be found?
27:30 possessing the origin of all poems
28:20 Whitman teaches us to see truly
29:00 focusing on the present moment
30:00 on American transcendentalism
30:45 the unification of body and soul
31:20 Walt Whitman’s epic catalogues
32:00 our problems are not our true selves
33:30 the question of ‘what is the grass?’
35:00 Walt Whitman’s prolific decade
35:30 on multiple meanings in poetry
36:10 what does ‘Leaves of Grass’ mean?
38:00 ‘look for me under your boot-soles’
39:50 liberating cycles of death and rebirth
40:30 how to read a poem for the first time
41:15 reading the divine signs in nature
42:00 ‘the beautiful uncut hair of graves’
42:45 ‘all goes onward and outward’
43:00 Whitman’s love for humanity
44:45 Whitman on abolition of slavery
45:20 ‘I Sing the Body Electric’
48:00 Whitman during the Civil War
48:30 Whitman’s poems for President Lincoln
49:30 expressing the thoughts of all men
51:30 music for the conquered and slain
52:45 the healing power of Whitman
53:20 on rereading your favourite parts
55:00 the miracle of touching and feeling
55:50 ‘all truths wait in all things’
56:00 the aim with aesthetic criticism
56:30 how to read poetry sensitively
57:00 ‘only what nobody denies is so’
58:20 Whitman on living with the animals
1:00:00 Whitman sends us into nature
1:01:00 how to truly apprehend God
1:02:30 are you able to love yourself?
1:03:30 the ending of ‘Song of Myself’
1:04:30 ‘I sound my barbaric yawp…’
1:05:10 ‘I stop somewhere waiting for you’
1:05:40 expressing my gratitude for you
1:06:30 your thoughts on Walt Whitman?
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