[lit-ideas] Re: Influence
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:00:15 -0500
[?] Good.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Stevens was influenced by Whitman
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> Or so Bloom says though Stevens
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> Never read Whitman or so he said.
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> With this being insisted, most of
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> Which I don’t recall how can
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> I be sure? I was told Leopardi
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> Is like me – a gentle way
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> Of saying I am like him,
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> But I don’t read Italian and
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> Don’t recall reading a translation;
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> So I bought the text by Galassi.
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> I don’t see myself in Whitman
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> Stevens or Leopardi. In one sense
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> I am more warlike but in another
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> They assert themselves
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> More than I ever would, not
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> Caring that much for the world
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> Nor what it thinks, mistrusting
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> Whatever is current or
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> Believed, even my denial
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> That I have been infected.
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