"To pierce intellectual depths" and "to speak" with "the perfect rectitude" "of the movements of animals" were two of its preface's stated objectives. In a later additions to the collection, the author describes how "on a little promontory... stood, isolated" "A Noiseless Patient Spider" and how, "Aroused and angry," he resigned himself "To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead" The fifty-second a
"To pierce intellectual depths" and "to speak" with "the perfect rectitude" "of the movements of animals" were two of its preface's stated objectives. In a later additions to the collection, the author describes how "on a little promontory... stood, isolated" "A Noiseless Patient Spider" and how, "Aroused and angry," he resigned himself "To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead" The fifty-second and final section of its first poem begins "The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me" before "over the roofs of the world" the untamed poet sounds his "barbaric yawp." FTP, name this quintessential American poetry collection by Walt Whitman.
"To pierce intellectual depths" and "to speak" with "the perfect rectitude" "of the movements of animals" were two of its preface's stated objectives.
Leaves of Grass