Book 2: Leaves of Grass

I was excited to read this book, we hear about Walt Whitman in history, movies, and books after a while I became a little curious. After starting the other awful book (Age of Fable) I quickly started this one, boy was I glad. Although most of his poetry was hard to understand I quickly realized that this a book of poetry about the great United States of America and the even greater people that live there. Ever once in a while I understood and felt what he was saying and it was touching. I enjoyed this book for 2 reasons:

1-I felt so smart as I read it. At first I hardly understood anything he was saying, but the more I read the more I think I began to understand what he was writing about. Of coarse I am probably wrong, but still I feel intelligent right now and that is a pretty great feeling.

2-Walt Whitman's poetry and the way he used the written word is beautiful (at least those things I understood). I will share a few of those.

"Other states indicate themselves in their deputies....but the genius of the United States is not best of most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors...but always most in the common people."

"Will you seek afar off? You surely will com back at at last,

In the things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best,

In folks nearest you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,

Happiness not in the another place, but this place..not for another hour but this hour,..."

"Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,

And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful."