Tag Archives: "Song of Myself"

An Inspiring Speech Draws Upon Poetry

By Robin Bates | Published: March 10, 2015

Obama drew powerfully from James Baldwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman in his Selma speech.

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Whitman’s Blast of Green Grace

By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2014

Scott Bates’ homage to Walt Whitman tells of amorous encounters from the grass’s point of view.

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Whoever Degrades Another Degrades Me

By Robin Bates | Published: July 22, 2013

Whitman’s “Song of Myself” calls us to imagine the experience of the Other, just as Obama asked us to imagine the perspective of young black men.

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