I remember once watching a video of two teenage boys playing a parody of "Let it Be" that they had written about the poem come up from the fields father. However, I can't seem to find it on YouTube. Does anyone know where to find it?

I am very interested in ordering some of Whitman's work. I've been to every bookstore in town and none of them have anything of him.

I'm looking around on the internet, but it seems like it's a lot of different collections and versions of the poems? I don't know about a specific one that I want to read as I haven't heard so much about him before. Actually, I know about Leaves of grass, so if that one is included I would be very happy.

I was wondering if anyone could help me and link me a recommended book/collection?

Whoever you are holding me now in hand,

Without one thing all will be useless,

I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,

I am not what you supposed, but far different.

Idk he's in our family tree far back, so I was curious ab who he was and I found a poem called "a clear midnight", and idk, that poem has stuck with me for a long long time. Very eerily beautiful

In 1871, Walt Whitman published "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" with the line: "Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?"

How could Whitman know the Ethiopian national colors when the earliest sighting of the Ethiopian flag was not until 1881?

Coincidence?

Thank you!

walt yo, you spear of summer grass. would be an absolute dream to share a walk with you. i am they, soonest finished with my supper. pls, ill be your curious token.

if anyone loves walt, please, reach out. lets discuss eidolons.

And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and
yet the same,
I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
and make pure and beautify it;

(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,
Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns.)

NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though
beaten back, and many times baffled;
Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long,
By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he
reaches his destination,
More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose a
free march for These States,
To be exhilarating music to them--a battle-call, rousing to arms, if
need be--years, centuries hence.

Walt Whitman

1
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.

2. ......

Full source: https://internetpoem.com/walt-whitman/song-of-myself-poem/

I started reading leaves of grass and find myself frequently googling definitions for words. Needless to say pulling the phone out is a pretty big distraction. Can anyone recommend a good pocket dictionary as a companion for the work?

Can anyone suggest me a good biography of WW?