Steve at Shadows & Light is reading/writing about making sense of Walt Whitman, so I thought I'd repost again my take on the guy:
my slide-show mashup of Whitman & Captain Kirk,
Star Trek TOS: I Sing the Captain Electric. (1:38 min.)
(Wow--I posted it ten years ago, almost to the day: July 8, 2010.)
My description on youtube:
I'm not a huge Whitman fan (a bit overblown for me), but I do like him. I'd made this image macro after Trump was "elected" in 2016.
(Real book cover, I added SAYS and the quote.)
my slide-show mashup of Whitman & Captain Kirk,
Star Trek TOS: I Sing the Captain Electric. (1:38 min.)
(Wow--I posted it ten years ago, almost to the day: July 8, 2010.)
My description on youtube:
"Whitman's hymn to the male body in 'I Sing the Body Electric' could've been written with Kirk in mind ('O Captain, my Captain!'). All lines here are from the poem, though not in the original order.
And Aaron Copland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man' seems tailor made for our boy too."
I'm not a huge Whitman fan (a bit overblown for me), but I do like him. I'd made this image macro after Trump was "elected" in 2016.
(Real book cover, I added SAYS and the quote.)
