American Literature(11)

•  Life of Pi 

 is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001.

• 推薦電影：Life of Pi (2012) 

• 推薦音樂："Sigh No More, Ladies..."(From "Much Ado about Nothing")
                                         by   William Shakespeare

•  Walter "Walt" Whitman ( 1819 – 1892)
  
  was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.
  
   Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892.

 

•  Song of Myself

 "Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as "representing the core of Whitman’s poetic vision."

•  詩人自比

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 Sing on! sing on, you gray-brown bird!
 Sing from the swamps, the recesses—pour your chant from the bushes;
 Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines.
 Sing on, dearest brother—warble your reedy song;
 Loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe.
 O liquid, and free, and tender!
 O wild and loose to my soul! O wondrous singer!
 You only I hear......yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart;) 
 Yet the lilac, with mastering odor, holds me.

                                             ───  When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd

 
 The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,  If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

                                                ─── Ode to the West Wind