All rights reserved.Īs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Website Development by Practical Business SystemsĬontents of this web site and all original text and images therein are copyright © by Your Daily Poem. All this before the Civil War would change much about the poet and his country. Let poems take you awanderin'.Ī wonderful poem of innocence and innocent expectation, and of the American version of wanderlust. Be careful what you inhale in "great draughts of space". Wanderers are looked on with suspicion seekers are relegated to electronically seeking information but not knowledge. It's sad that those days seem to be gone. How have we missed what the poets tell us? To wallow in good poetry is to bring our own reflection to mind, to see for ourselves what is necessary to live thusly. Sad to see this poem used in a commercial. I'm sorry you feel this way but I'm sure I'm not alone in being introduced to these amazing words that seem to explain my very purpose, I am here now for good and new. I got called back to this poem after thirty years, by hearing a bad reading on a car commercial by an actor with a beautiful voice. The edit is nice and speaks to the person that feels that the whole world is connected to his or her driveway in some way. It's nice to see a beautiful poem recognized in pop culture. He achieved international acclaim during the course of his career, but probably had as many detractors as he did fans. More often, he worked as a printer, a clerk, or a nurse he was chronically poor, but managed to interject culture (he loved opera) and travel into his life. Though his formal education ended with elementary school, Whitman was an educator at several points in his life. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) is primarily known for a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass, which he completely revised at least five times during the course of his life and which appeared in print in at least three different editions. Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me I will toss the new gladness and roughness among them I will scatter myself among men and women as I go I will recruit for myself and you as I go I can repeat over to men and women, You have done such good to me, The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine. Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Listening to others, and considering well what they say, Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute, įrom this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Strong and content, I travel the open road. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Henceforth I ask not good-fortune-I myself am good fortune The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose. Ask for this YDP anthology at your favorite bookstore or order it online today!Īfoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,
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