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1、惠特曼诗歌特点Whitmans poetic style is marked, first of all, by the use of the poetic I. Whitman becomes all those people in his poems and yet still remains Walt Whitman, hence a discovery of the self in the other with such an identification. In such a manner, Whitman invites his readers to participate in
2、the process of sympathetic identification.(2) Whitman is also radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. He adopted free verse, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A looser and more open-ended syntactical structure is frequently favored. Lines and sentences of
3、 different lengths are left lying side by side just as things are, undisturbed and separate. There are few compound sentences to draw objects and experiences into a system of hierarchy. Whitman was the first American to use free verse extensively. By means of free verse, Whitman turned the poem into
4、 an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.3) Whitman is conversational and casual, in the fluid, expansive, and unstructured style of talking. However, there is a strong sense of the poems being rhythmical. The reader can feel the rhythm of W
5、hitmans thought and cadences of his feeling. Parallelism and phonetic recurrence at the beginning of the lines also contribute to the musicality of his poems.(4) Whitmans languagerelatively simple and even rather crude.(a) Most of the pictures he painted with words are honest, undistorted images of
6、different aspects of America of the day. They are unconventional in the way they break down the social division based on religion, gender, class, and race. One of the most often-used methods in Whitmans poems is to make colors and images fleet past the minds eye of the reader. b) strong tendency to
7、use oral English.(c) Whitmans vocabulary is amazing: powerful, colorful, as well as rarely-used words, words of foreign origin and sometimes even wrong words.Walt Whitman has proved a great figure in the literary history of the United States because he embodies a new ideal, a new world and a new lif
8、e-style, and his influence over the following generations is significant and incredible.Whitman 诗歌主题optimistic expectation enthusiasm about new things and new epoch. The abundance of themes in his poetry voices freshness. (1) He shows concern for the whole hard-working people and the burgeoning life
9、 of cities. (2) He advocates the realization of the individual value. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass sing of the en-masse and the self as well. (3) Pursuit of love and happiness Sexual loveThe individual person and his desires. (4) Some of Whitmans poems are politically committed: Leaves of gr
10、assthe title: where there is earth, where there is water, there is grass. Grass, is an image of the poet himself, a symbol of the then rising American nation and an embodiment of his ideals about democracy and freedom.openness, freedom, individualism (the belief that the rights and freedom of individual people are most important) are all that concerned him. attacks the slavery system and racial discrimination. extols nature, democracy, labor and creation , sings of mans dignity and equality, and of the brightestfutureof mankind . Most of the poems sing of the en-masse and the self as well.
