Great Poet considered the great representative of free verse and one of the most influential writers in the North American canon. The son of a Dutch mother and a British father, he was the second of nine siblings from a family with few financial resources.
He went to school only occasionally and soon had to start working, first, despite his scant academic training, as an itinerant teacher, and later in a printing press, which was where his love for journalism was awakened, an interest that led him to work in various newspapers and magazines. Later he was appointed director of the Brooklyn Eagle in , in which he lasted only two years due to his disagreement with the openly pro-slavery line defended by the newspaper.
His fondness for opera a genre that influences his poetic work allowed him to coincide on an opening night with a leader of the New Orleans newspaper Crescent, who convinced him to leave New York and accept an offer to work at the newspaper. In , he had the opportunity to contemplate a reality, that of the provinces, totally unknown to him and that, ultimately, would be decisive for his future career since, back to New York a few months later, he abandoned journalism to give himself completely to to write.
This first edition consisted of twelve poems, all of them untitled, and it was Whitman himself who oversaw editing it and taking it to the press. Of the 1, copies in the print run, Whitman sold few and gave most away, one of them to Ralph Waldo Emerson, an important figure on the American literary scene and his first admirer. His criticism, very positive, motivated Whitman to continue writing, despite his ruinous financial situation and the null impact that, in general, his poems had had.
In the second edition appeared, and four years later the third, which he expanded with a presentation poem and a farewell poem. He was a controversial author who made a show of leading a very intense life as he was a poet, nurse, volunteer, essayist, journalist, humanist…. The poems of this author are vigorous and aggressive in spirit, in which he used everyday elements as an expression of the eternal.
He has recurring themes among his verses such as sex, man, the body, religion, animals, or geography. Among his virtues stands out with his lyrics his constant attitude of joy, emotions that he continually reveals in his poems, giving them something more peculiar life and style. One could perceive in each of his writings his objective, which was to give dignity to all people, something totally unusual in the era in which Humanism was marked.
Both in its themes and in its form, the poetry of this great writer was far from everything that was usually understood as poetic, but he knew how to create moments of deep lyricism with new materials.
His influence would be perceptible in successive lyrical generations, both in his country and in other literatures from other parts of the world. Ultimately, without him, modern poetry would not be the same, so we are motivated to share his best phrases with all the poets in the world:.
Yo estoy fuera de estos empujones que me traen y me llevan. I am out of these pushes that bring me and carry me. I stay up, happy, idle, compassionate, seeing everything in panorama, looking upright, the world from above or leaning my arm on a secure support, although invisible, waiting curiously, with my head half turned to the side, what is going to happen.
In the confusion we stayed with the others, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. A big city is one that has the biggest men and women. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunlight of letters, is simplicity. Me gusta sentirme fuerte y sano bajo la luna llena y levantarme cantando alegremente a saludar al sol.
Omaggi : En homenaje a Luis Cernuda ; De mar a mar. Tre poesie tratte da: Poeta en Nueva York Traduzione dal castigliano di Carlo Bo. Facebook: Caponnetto-Poesiaperta Facebook. Antonino Caponnetto 24 ottobre Unknown 24 ottobre Aggiungi commento. Hay una brecha enorme, insalvable entre ricos y pobres. Cada vez hay menos tierra en la que jugar. La tierra se queja y las lombrices pierden su espacio donde pueden escarbar y vivir, remover la tierra para que salgan nuevas plantas. La ciudad es demasiado racional, ordenada, casi insensible.
El poeta reivindica la falta de justicia social que no se cuenta, que se desconoce. Se ofrece para ser ese altavoz de la sociedad olvidada, apartada. Debajo de las multiplicaciones hay una gota de sangre de pato.
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