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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman. By: Trey Terrell. O Hymen! O Hymenee. O HYMEN ! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus? O why sting me for a swift moment only? Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease? Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me? .

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Walt Whitman

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  1. Walt Whitman By: Trey Terrell

  2. O Hymen! O Hymenee • O HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus? O why sting me for a swift moment only? Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease? Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?

  3. About the Poem • This poem has no regular Rhyme scheme. • No meter or sound devices. • It is however a metaphor for is inability to “perform.”

  4. Biography • Born May 31, 1819 • Lived in Long Island and Brooklyn • Began working as a printer at 12 years old • Founded a weekly news paper The Long Islander in 1841 • 1842 his didactic temperance novel, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate, appears in print. • Whitman founds and edits the Brooklyn Weekly Freeman, in 1848

  5. Biography(cont.) • Whitman writes for Life Illustrated, and publishes a second edition of Leaves of Grass in 1856 • Whitman publishes the fifth edition of Leaves of Grass, Democratic Vistas in 1870 • Whitman suffers a stroke, debilitating his left arm and leg in 1873 • A second stroke affects the right side of Whitman's body in 1875 • November Boughs is published in 1888

  6. Biography(cont.) • The final version of Leaves of Grassalso known as the “death-bed edition” is published in 1892 • March 26th, 1892 Whitman dies.

  7. Quotes About the Poet • Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. -Federico Garcia Lorca(Poet) • Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. -David Lodge(author)

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