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Obligation

In his poem, “Poet’s Obligation”, Neruda expresses his desire to bring poetic freedom to those who are not able to reach it. He longs to bring the sea to the prisoner, the career person, and the factory worker–people stuck at … Continue reading

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Slightly Horrifying Knowledge: How Sometimes Whitman Can Only Take Us So Far

My Life Among I’m beginning to dream again of my life among the ornamental, the vaguely functional, the doorstops and paperweights, my tenure in the legion of lawn gnomes, my brotherhood with novelty decanters, my solidarity with the generally useless, … Continue reading

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“Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all”

Channeling Anarchy through Whitman Specimen 4: The Burden of Witness “The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,”   Song of Myself, 8 “What is absent makes the world what it is.” History of the Always Pain, Jennifer Militello … Continue reading

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