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This reads as a declaration of cultural faith, not just sports enthusiasm. Baseball is being treated as a shared national language, something ordinary people can recognize as theirs. It lands when a game feels like more than a pastime, when it stands in for memory, identity, and the sense that a country has its own common rituals.
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About Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist, and journalist, 19th century
Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He lived in the 19th century and is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in American and world poetry. He wrote two novels as well as poetry and prose, and his work blends transcendentalism with realism. He is often called the father of free verse. Much of the attention around him came from the controversy over Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, which some readers condemned as obscene for its open sensuality.
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- “Song of myselfNow I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribut…”Walt Whitman
- “Song of myselfA child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child…”Walt Whitman
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Books by Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
2004
Drum-taps
1865
Canto a Mi Mismo
1950
The Wound Dresser
1898
Calamus
1897