tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327941641682028574.post4498093762134881608..comments2012-05-25T14:14:36.775-07:00Comments on KenBlog: Two Lines that Stuck in My MindAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341761110173788063noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327941641682028574.post-79875036649785041582012-02-01T16:01:37.243-08:002012-02-01T16:01:37.243-08:00The Tebow position . . please no. You are absolut...The Tebow position . . please no. You are absolutely correct, it seems to me, to connect W's "wholism" with Du Bois's veil. Like D.B., the problem for W is division - - divided consciousness (between body and mind, senses and knowledge, etc.), divided nation, divided selves. D.B.'s "solution" is politics (to some extent) - - W's is poetry. It's a good test case for Whitman: can poetry suture up the real, oppressive divisions that define America? Some have criticized W for his blitheness about these (class, race, etc.) divisions. Sometimes this seems to me to be a criticism of poetry, rather than W in general.Professor Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15356947868729856290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327941641682028574.post-20880451806524436302012-01-31T13:18:17.421-08:002012-01-31T13:18:17.421-08:00I also thought of Dubois after I read your favorit...I also thought of Dubois after I read your favorite lines. Maybe we both took Hanley's American Lit class last semester. Ha! Anyway, I enjoy your take and connection of hope within Whitman's poem. It allows me to see a better cause in the reason for Whitman's desperate desire to speak for humanity as a whole. It is as if he has the ultimate understanding and even though others may have floundering thoughts.. "every thought that flounders in [them] flounders the same in [him]" Whitman is able to decipher the thoughts and confusions of others and transform them into a song of hope. Maybe he undoes the veil of the shallow and floundering. Cool!Trace On My Facehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201302740599811534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327941641682028574.post-78694287409663424542012-01-31T13:01:52.463-08:002012-01-31T13:01:52.463-08:00Yo ken, I dig the Dubois connection. I recall his ...Yo ken, I dig the Dubois connection. I recall his veil and how it lies before the eyes distorting the world. This political connection is very cool. it is interesting to think of the political state during Walt's time and now: the tipping and sliding of our current condition reflects Walt's time in many ways and i think you got that. Catch you around!Maxamillian Vaughn Goerlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08376881287637814783noreply@blogger.com