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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Leaves of Grass Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is the connection between Emerson's &quot;Self-Reliance&quot; and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/leaves-of-grass/q-and-a/what-connection-between-emersons-quot-self-45595</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what is the connection between Emerson's &quot;Self-Reliance&quot; and Whitman's Leaves of Grass, which conto most resonates Emersonian ideas?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This quote does not mean anything when taken out of the context. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This quote does not mean anything when taken out of the context.  “Where are you off to, lady? for I see you, You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room. Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather, The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them. The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet, it ran from their long hair, Little streams pass'd all over their bodies. An unseen hand also...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:23:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does &quot;an unseen hand also passed over their bodies/It...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does &quot;an unseen hand also passed over their bodies/It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs&quot; mean? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:12:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When it says &quot;or i guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord&quot;...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When it says &quot;or i guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord&quot; it also reminds me of the dew in the mornings that settles on the grass. Then it goes on to say &quot;a scented gift and remembrancer dropped&quot; as if he placed it there as a reminder that he is the Creator.Also when it says &quot;..the grass itself a child...the produced babe of vegetation.&quot; it reminds me of how we rely and depend on our children, the next...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:17:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Whitman's poem &quot;Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand&quot;...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Whitman's poem &quot;Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand&quot; appeared in the third edition of his &quot;Leaves of Grass&quot; (1860) which was entitled &quot;Calamus. The inflorescence of the calamus plant is shaped like an erect male penis. Calamus is thus a metaphor for male homosexual love both physical and emotional.  In Greek mythology Kalamos the son of the river god Maeander loved Karpos son of Zephyrus and Chloris. When...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:22:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;Whoever You are Holding me now in hand.&quot; What's the meter,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;Whoever You are Holding me now in hand.&quot; What's the meter, theme, and metaphor in &quot;Leaves of Grass&quot;?  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:01:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The doctrine of Manifest Destiny was a belief that the imperialistic...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/leaves-of-grass/group/discuss/song-myself-opposite-manifest-destiny-3965#2</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The doctrine of Manifest Destiny was a belief that the imperialistic expansion of conquered lands was not only the right of each nation but also the duty of that nation.  In the United States, this was demonstrated through the settling of the western frontier.  This imperialist and selfish rationalization does not coincide with the spiritual and humanistic beliefs of Walt Whitman, and particularly with the way he portrays himself in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:07:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Song of Myself" the opposite of Manifest Destiny?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Can Whitman in &quot;Song of Myself&quot; be considered the opposite of Manifest Destiny?</p>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:00:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Whitman's &quot;Song of Myself&quot; is the most important poem in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Whitman's &quot;Song of Myself&quot; is the most important poem in &quot;Leaves of Grass&quot; (1855).The main theme of section 21 is the acceptance and celebration of the unity in diversity of both the physical and the spiritual universe: man and woman, earth and sea, full moon and large stars  and most importantly the Body and the Soul.The section is anti-puritanical and underscores the creed of the Transcendentalists  that the self is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:06:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Essence of section 21 of  "Song of "Myself?"]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>What is the essence of section 21 of  &quot;Song of &quot;Myself?&quot;</p>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:53:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Whitman was a controversial figure because he broke with so many poetic...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Whitman was a controversial figure because he broke with so many poetic traditions. He wrote in free verse, which was revolutionary at the time and cast him as a prophetic figure for future poets. In many ways, he was about 50 years ahead of his time.Whitman met with significant criticism during his career because his work was often considered too sexually suggestive; he wrote about &quot;the procreative urge of the universe&quot; as freely as...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:55:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why was Walt Whitman liked by some people and disliked by others?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why was Walt Whitman liked by some people and disliked by others?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:02:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Free verse refers to poetry that does not have rhyme, rhythm or meter. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Free verse refers to poetry that does not have rhyme, rhythm or meter.  All three are true of &quot;Abroad at a Ship's Helm&quot;.  If you look to the end of the lines, there is no rhyme scheme that runs through.  In addition, each line has its own arrangement of hard and soft syllables, and so they lack a musical cadence.  Without rhythm, there can be no meter.  What is more important to note is that the poet using free verse creates...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:45:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lack of regular line length, lack of rhyme scheme, and rhythm based on...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Lack of regular line length, lack of rhyme scheme, and rhythm based on &quot;pattern elements&quot; such as &quot;sounds, words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs, rather than on the traditional units of metrical feet.&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:54:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What three elements of free verse are used by Walt Whitman in the poem...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What three elements of free verse are used by Walt Whitman in the poem &quot;Aboard at a Ship's Helm&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:01:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are three elements of free verse you find in &quot;Abroad at a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/leaves-of-grass/q-and-a/what-three-elements-free-verse-you-find-quot-17519</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What are three elements of free verse you find in &quot;Abroad at a Ship's Helm&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:54:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:49:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are Whitman's views on nature? How does he express them in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are Whitman's views on nature? How does he express them in &quot;Song of Myself&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:17:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Some metaphors in this section occur in this line: “Not I, not any...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/leaves-of-grass/q-and-a/section-46-whitman-s-song-myself-what-some-13821</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Some metaphors in this section occur in this line: “Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you.” Here “travel” and “road” refer to choices a person must make, the speaker advising that each person must make her own, that neither he (the speaker, through his advice) nor anyone else can assume that responsibility for another. “Travel that road” is itself an image, of course, envisioning a pathway that goes off onto...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:59:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Section 46 of Whitman's Song of Myself, what are some  examples of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Section 46 of Whitman's Song of Myself, what are some  examples of imagery, rhythm, and metaphors?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:55:32 PST</pubDate>
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