Leaves of Grass - 150th Anniversary Edition

Walt Whitman

Signet Classics

2005

490 páginas

16h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780451529732

Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece 'Song of Myself.' Shattering standard conventions of symbolism and allegory, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature. With a New Foreword by Billy Collins, an Introduction by Gay Wilson Allen and an Afterword by Peter Davidson.

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As a millenial that recently has liked up with the latest Kendrick Lamar's album "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers", Whitman's poems feel exactly like a deep symbolic Kendrick Lamar song. I know I'm getting the timeline wrongly here because there are hundreds of years separating Lamar and Whitman apart, but what I'm trying to say is that hip hop is not that far from what we consider classic literature as these modern poets like Kendrick himself and Nas (that I've mentioned before in another review) are capable of depicting feelings, places and life experiences onto their music crafts like these poets did back in the day.