![]() ![]() In “O Me! O Life!,” for example, the speaker seems at first to be engaged in dialogue with himself, questioning the world around him and his relation to it all. ![]() Indeed, the very notion of dialogue is essential to Whitman’s poetic sensibility. Born in 1819, on Long Island, New York, Whitman lived through the great events of nineteenth-century America, i.e., the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the assassination of President Lincoln westward expansion and the settling of the American prairie industrialization, immigration and the growth of the city much of his poetry engages in a dialogue with this rapidly-changing world. This month, the star of our Poetry Reading Club is America’s first “celebrity poet”: Walt Whitman. POETRY READING CLUB- POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman ![]()
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