WALT WHITMAN

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WALT WHITMAN

• Walt Whitman
• A Poet Who Spoke To The World

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WALT

• ABOUT THE POET
• Whitman was born My 31, 1819, to parents of
• Dutch and English descent they kept a farms
  Hills, Long Island, in what is today the town of
  Huntington. His fathers ancestors had come from
  England only twenty year after the landing of
  the Mayflower and had settled in Connecticut.
  Before Whitman was twenty, his feeling for the
  written word and his fascination with the
  boomtown atmosphere of Brooklyn led him into
  journalism Whitman had seven brothers.

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WALTS BIRTH PLACE.
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A POEM FROM LEAVES OF GRASS.

• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs
  him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
• Walt Whitman

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Leaves Of Grass

• This is what you shall do Love the earth and sun
  and the animals, despise riches, give alms to
  everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and
  crazy, devote your income and labor to others,
  hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have
  patience and indulgence towards the people, take
  off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to
  any man or number of men go freely with the
  mothers of families re-examine all you have been
  told in school or church or in any book, dismiss
  whatever insult your own soul and your very
  flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest
  fluency, not only in its words but in the silent
  lines of its lips and face, and between the
  lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and
  joint of your body.

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• Besides, They'll see how beautiful I amAnd be
  ashamed--I, too, am America.
• Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen company
  comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in the
  kitchen,"Then.Besides, They'll see how
  beautiful I amAnd be ashamed--I, too, am
  America.

• I, too, sing America.I am the darker
  brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen
  company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And
  grow strong.Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen
  company comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in
  the kitchen,"Then.

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• Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen company
  comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in the
  kitchen,"Then.Besides, They'll see how
  beautiful I amAnd be ashamed--I, too, am
  America.

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• I, too, sing America.I am the darker
  brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen
  company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And
  grow strong.Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen
  company comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in
  the kitchen,"Then.Besides, They'll see how
  beautiful I amAnd be ashamed--I, too, am
  America.
• Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen company
  comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in the
  kitchen,"Then.Besides, They'll see how
  beautiful I amAnd be ashamed--I, too, am
  America.

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• I, too, sing America.I am the darker
  brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen
  company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And
  grow strong.Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen
  company comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in
  the kitchen,"Then.Besides, They'll see how
  beautiful I amAnd be ashamed--I, too, am
  America.
• Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen company
  comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in the
  kitchen,"Then.Besides, They'll see how
  beautiful I amAnd be ashamed--