In one of this man's poems, a father notes "something there is more immortal even than the stars" after his daughter weeps at the sight of the "lord-star Jupiter" and "the delicate brothers, the Pleiades."
In one of this man's poems, a father notes "something there is more immortal even than the stars" after his daughter weeps at the sight of the "lord-star Jupiter" and "the delicate brothers, the Pleiades." Another of his poems addresses his Soul, which is "Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space." This poet of "On the Beach at Night" asked "Have you your pistols? Have you your sharp edged axes" in a poem which inspired the title of a (*) Willa Cather novel. The speaker of another of his poems "look'd up in perfect silence at the stars" after abandoning the "charts and the diagrams" of the title lecturer. He wrote of a child asking "what is the grass?" in a poem which includes a "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." For 10 points, name this American author of "The Noiseless Patient Spider," "I Hear America Singing," and "Song of Myself," who collected his poetry in Leaves of Grass.
In one of this man's poems, a father notes "something there is more immortal even than the stars" after his daughter weeps at the sight of the "lord-star Jupiter" and "the delicate brothers, the Pleiades."
Walt Whitman