Leaves of Grass (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Walt Whitman
- First Published: 1855
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, Civil War, Human behavior, Work or workers, Democracy
- Locales: United States
Places Discussed
*Paumanok. Village on Long Island east of New York City where Whitman was born. His early poem “Starting from Paumanok” describes the village as “fish- shaped,” indicating its (and his) nautical origins, an idea that he developed in detail in “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” in which he envisions himself a “little boy again,/ Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves.” Whitman recalls Paumanok’s fragrance as “lilac-scent,” its coastline as marked by “Fifth-month grass” and “briers,” and its seashore inhabited by...
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