Whitman had a lifelong attachment to the grammatical form of the present participles and the poetic "I". In this thesis, I proposed that these devices constitute an essential part of his poetics and that the...Whitman had a lifelong attachment to the grammatical form of the present participles and the poetic "I". In this thesis, I proposed that these devices constitute an essential part of his poetics and that they reflect and express some of this poet’s most fundamental ideas and beliefs about life and poetry. Here I used I HEAR AMERICAN SINGING, as illustration, in the hope that some of the conclusions I made here would help us to understand his other poems better.展开更多
文摘Whitman had a lifelong attachment to the grammatical form of the present participles and the poetic "I". In this thesis, I proposed that these devices constitute an essential part of his poetics and that they reflect and express some of this poet’s most fundamental ideas and beliefs about life and poetry. Here I used I HEAR AMERICAN SINGING, as illustration, in the hope that some of the conclusions I made here would help us to understand his other poems better.
