10 interesting facts of Walt Whitman:
1- He was the second son of Walt Whitman and Loisa Van Velsor and he had 8 siblings.
2-He worked as a printer in New York City.
3-When he was 17 he began working as a teacher in the school hoeses of Long Island.
4-In 1841 he began jorking as a journalist and founded a weekly newspaper called “Long-Islander”
5-the he began working as an editor in New York.
6-In 1855, Whitman took out a copyright on the first edition of Leaves of Grass (self-published), which consisted of twelve untitled poems and a preface.
7-released a second edition of the book in 1856, containing thirty-three poems, a letter from Emerson praising the first edition, and a long open letter by Whitman in response
8-He wrote freelance journalism and visited the wounded at New York-area hospitals. He then traveled to Washington, D.C. in December 1862 to care for his brother who had been wounded in the Civil War.
9-Whitman chose to stay in Washington D.C. working as a clerk for the department of the Interior, which ended when the Secretary of the Interior, James Harlan, discovered that Whitman was the author of Leaves of Grass, which Harlan found offensive.
10-Whitman spent his declining years working on additions and revisions to a new edition of the book and preparing his final volume of poems and prose, Good-Bye, My Fancy (David McKay, 1891). After his death on March 26, 1892, Whitman was buried in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in Harleigh Cemeter
see more at: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/126
Artists/ writers he influenced:
Bram Stoker
Roderick and Madeline Usher:
Roderick: he was a cadaverous man, with large eyes, thin but curvy lips. He had a delicate Hebrew model nose and a finely molded chin, with a ghastly pallor of the skin. He also has silky black hair ans an alternately vivacious voice.
Madeline: She was very sick and was distant, lonely and indifferent; almost like a ghost.
The Ushers and the House:
Both, the house and the Usher twins, were mysterious and kind of creepy. They seemed very dark and emotion less. All of them were slowly decaying and soon will die, well in the case of the house (since it is a material thing) it will be destroyed.
Moments- One Direction
Shut the door, turn the light off
I wanna be with you
I wanna feel your love
I wanna lay beside you
I cannot hide this even though I try
Heart beats harder
Time escapes me
Trembling hands touch skin
It makes this harder
And the tears stream down my face
If we could only have this life for one more day
If we could only turn back time
[Chorus]
You know I’ll be
Your life, your voice your reason to be
My love, my heart
Is breathing for this
Moments in time
I’ll find the words to say
Before you leave me today
Close the door
Throw the key
Don’t wanna be reminded
Don’t wanna be seen
Don’t wanna be without you
My judgement is clouded
Like tonight’s sky
Hands are silent
Voice is numb
Try to scream out my lungs
It makes this hard girl
And the tears stream down my face
If we could only have this life for one more day
If we could only turn back time
[Chorus]
You know I’ll be
Your life, your voice your reason to be
My love, my heart
Is breathing for this
Moments in time
I’ll find the words to say
Before you leave me today
Flashes left in my mind
Going back to the time
Playing games in the street
Kicking balls with my feet
Dancing on with my toes
Standing close to the edge
There’s a pile of my clothes
At the end of your bed
As I feel myself fall
Make a joke of it all
[Chorus]
You know I’ll be
Your life, your voice your reason to be
My love, my heart
Is breathing for this
Moments in time
I’ll find the words to say
Before you leave me today
You know I’ll be
Your life, your voice your reason to be
My love, my heart
Is breathing for this
Moment in time
I’ll find the words to say
Before you leave me today
Rhymes: feet- street, numb- lung, fall- all
Word that are repeated: you, your, be, today, I, moments, etc.
I think the song is a beautiful way to tell a tragic good-bye story. Personally I haven’t experienced one of those moments, but I love this song. It is kind of sad and you, well at least most of the people who like this song, can clearly imagine the moment in which two lovers are sadly separated. Also it comes to my mind that maybe someone loved is going through a hard time and excludes him or herself, to find a solution, without knowing he or she should stay to receive that love. It is a really strong song, it brings a lot of emotions to me when I read it.
I think repetition and rhyme makes it more romantic and powerful. Because it seems like they are trying to make it as clear as possible that they love that person and are not willing to let him or her go without them knowing it.
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