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SILENT and amazed, even when a little boy,
I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his
statements,
As contending against some being or influence.
Walt Whitman
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Comments about this poem (A Child's Amaze
by
Walt Whitman
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Claudia Krizay (5/5/2011 4:08:00 PM)
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I don't read trashy novels often but I may have once and never read more because I didn't like it. I gather that Johnny reads porn because he is sexually disturbed. This poem is weak and meaningless to me.
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Johnny Navarro (5/5/2011 10:16:00 AM)
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what i gather from this is that claudia reads trashy novels.
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Pranab k Chakraborty (5/5/2011 9:39:00 AM)
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So strong the power of words, so brilliant the construction with limited words, I can't think the very writing of past days, it confronts the time today when religious leaders leading the community to fought against the people of different religion. It is truth that sometimes common devoted people are being used by some people who dressed themselves by the name of almighty but some dark bossing tendency still exist under their veil to dominate the others. And domination always seeks some lame excuses to be accepted by others by the name of higher authority...may it be by the name of political doctrine or by the name of God. After all, a very good choice by the PH when the globe facing a yellow story of erasing the controversial abscond terrorist leader of a particular religious community.
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Claudia Krizay (5/5/2011 6:36:00 AM)
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Sounds like a sentence out of some trashy novel.
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Juan Olivarez (5/5/2010 12:59:00 PM)
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Even though Walt Whitman is not one of my favorites, this poem is direct to the business at hand and says so much with so little.
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Ramesh T A (5/5/2010 8:02:00 AM)
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There are so many better poems by Walt Whitman than the one above!
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Kevin Straw (5/5/2010 7:39:00 AM)
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Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, some new poems!
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surya . (5/5/2009 11:17:00 PM)
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sir
no doubt what is heard or taught in the childhood will remain with him all the time.if it is about GOd his matured mind has to pick it up later. let us not enforce
sury surya
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William Stoneberger (5/5/2009 8:05:00 PM)
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must disagree with you Mr. Straw...Whitman is my favorite American poet...and much of what came after in literature and poetry would have never happened without him...Leaves Of Grass is a must read for any aspiring poet...peace & poetics
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JOSEPH POEWHIT (5/5/2009 10:22:00 AM)
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'Being or influence', seems to be the keywords in this short verse. Whitman seen the preacher speaking about the evil forces of his time. I would imagine the social evils and the lusts of the time. Though, in that era people were more, local, farmers and workers, with the family and church as the focal point of life.. There was really little outside influence, except for the traveler. The big city, would come into mind, as a place of varied influences.
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