Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis Simpson
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
Louis Simpson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection At the End of the Open Road includes the poem “Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain.” This verse contains twelve stanzas, which are uncontrolled by rhyme, meter, or specific divisions. Two topics—the poet Walt Whitman and the United States—bring the only order to the forty-four lines of poetry. In the verse, Simpson celebrates Whitman, bemoans a nation of self-seekers who have forsaken the American ideal, predicts the nation’s demise, prescribes a remedy—confusing though it is—for the loss of the...
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