by Daniel Silliman
Language
‘Those are not the words’: Walt Whitman’s collapsing taxonomy of poetry
By Daniel Silliman
Whitman seeks to establish a taxonomy of poetry, a system classifying what is good poetry, what bad, but the structure he establishes keeps collapsing.
Whitman seeks to establish a taxonomy of poetry, a system classifying what is good poetry, what bad, but the structure he establishes keeps collapsing.