tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2427265244488791295.post1155813847524812049..comments2024-02-03T15:15:29.545-08:00Comments on The NEW Ramblings of a Creative Mind: New Year with Walt WhitmanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2427265244488791295.post-47396090719694738002010-01-01T16:17:10.372-08:002010-01-01T16:17:10.372-08:00Wow, Kass, you said it better than I could. thank...Wow, Kass, you said it better than I could. thanks for digging into the facts.June Calenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265808476144632255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2427265244488791295.post-64376224444957817282009-12-30T08:52:00.057-08:002009-12-30T08:52:00.057-08:00After June's comment, I had to google Whitman&...After June's comment, I had to google Whitman's narcissism. You know how into the subject I am. June seems to know a lot about a lot of things. Here's what I found (in part):<br /><br />I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,<br />Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.<br />—Song of Myself<br /><br />Walt Whitman was a narcissist. His narcissism began in childhood when, as an infant unable to idealize his father or detach from his mother, he became his own love-object. Whitman’s attachment to his mother and disappointment in his father lasted throughout his lifetime and complicated his role in the Whitman family. His narcissism was the cause of both his obsession with the public’s reception of his work and his determination to be the nation’s poet. It is also the root of the autoeroticism in his poetry and an explanation of the fractured self his poetry portrays. Most poignantly, Whitman’s narcissism informed his homosexual impulses and the commingled pleasure and torture Whitman experienced as a nurse in the Civil War hospitals.Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2427265244488791295.post-55973017384464811102009-12-29T15:36:11.038-08:002009-12-29T15:36:11.038-08:00what a beautiful poem.....and such a fabulous phot...what a beautiful poem.....and such a fabulous photo to go with it!!! and marie....i'm crazy for your Christmas zentangle!!! wow! it's absolutely fabulous! and your lettering is fantastic, too!! thank you SO much for sharing your creative self with us.....you have inspired me in ways you'll never know! i'm wishing you a very artful new year.....cheers!! hugs, :))lori vliegenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11938424189889768402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2427265244488791295.post-10134382494953972062009-12-29T04:47:54.159-08:002009-12-29T04:47:54.159-08:00I'd love to drive that fantastic road! Wonder...I'd love to drive that fantastic road! Wonderful picture. <br /><br />Whitman's overwhelming narcissism usually bothers me but he redeems himself in part 5 that you quote. He is willing to listen and to share. thanks for the quote.June Calenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265808476144632255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2427265244488791295.post-17333715182678915732009-12-27T17:17:08.460-08:002009-12-27T17:17:08.460-08:00Love this poem. It IS good for the New Year! Did y...Love this poem. It IS good for the New Year! Did you take that great picture?Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.com