Reviews

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

salalamander's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.5

miayasmin's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective

3.0

yusrara's review

slow-paced

0.5

mininea's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

Take your time with the book and just feel the longing, hopefulness and melancholy that he lives through as he documents his America for  30 years, how he sees it, how he experiences it, and how he wishes it would be.

elsieols's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

“For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.” (“To a Certain Civilian,” Leaves of Grass, Whitman)

I have always enjoyed Whitman’s poetry, and I have read a few poems from Leaves of Grass before. after reading them all, though, I’m just struck by how much beauty Whitman saw in the world while still seeing so much of the bad. I don’t think it would be fair to call him ignorant for his time, but it’s difficult for me to imagine someone loving the US as much as he did while knowing so much of the worst parts of it. And still he was optimistic. I enjoy his poetry a lot, but this is still quite an alien concept to me, at least at this point in my life.

maralisephoto's review against another edition

4.0

Just finished the (much shorter) original 1855 edition. Now I'll move on to the 1891/92 and final edition. Deep breaths.

hakkun1's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

gracieanna21's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

jellybird25's review against another edition

2.5

Some of it is lovely but dang this took me years to get through. I understand the repetition was supposed to deliver a point but it was so dull.  

amal_idris's review against another edition

4.0

أيها الغريب
حين تمر بي، وتريد ان تحدثني
لم لا تحدثني؟
ولمَ لا أحدثك؟


لن أغني ليوم واحد
بل، للأيام كلها


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