T.P.C. para 24 de Novembro: Walt Whitman - dualidades, di-versidades, contradições

 Do I contradict myself?

Very well then…I contradict myself;

I am large…I contain multitudes. (2808)

Tendo em conta "Song of Myself", especialmente as secções 1, 2, 6, 15, 22, 24, 32, 51, comente algumas das seguintes dualidades:

- humano / natureza (ou bestial, selvagem)

- corpo / alma

- poeta divinizado / ímpeto democrático

- compaixão / degradação

Homework for November 22 (Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener)

 

Choose one of the following questions and comment on it in the box below:

1. What symbolic undertones can be ascribed to the wall and how do these relate to the different types of walls we find in the text?

2. Characterize the narrator as character, from what he tells and shows about himself.

3. How do you interpret the last sentence of the text?

Poe, "The Raven" (1845) dito por Vincent Price