Leaves of Grass I Sing The Body Electric Summary | Course Hero

Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem, ’The Hill We Climb’

Hank Owens on Instagram: "When Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, it was publicly condemned as obscene. Libraries refused to carry it. Newspapers called it filthy, beastly, and “a mass of stupid filth.” It was even banned in Boston in 1882, and publishers were threatened with prosecution. To me, Whitman’s words are piercingly beautiful. I feel them in my bones like a siren’s song… his yearning and longing, and his undeniable love of the body spills straight off the page. If you have