martes, 20 de agosto de 2013

AMERICAN LITERATURE- WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892)



This is a classic poem (and probably the best known one) from Leaves of Grass (first published in 1855), which is one of the most influential books in contemporary poetry. It was written by one of the great founding fathers of American Literature.
 
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.

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