BISAR discussion

i was just wandering if this group is at all active anymore! there have been no new posts since june/july. i made one a week ago but nothing.....

group read now!!! I miss the comments...

I am almost finished with Leaves of Grass. I will confirm the edition I read but I think it is un cut... The dude really relates to our theme as first stated but I see more problems with his optimisim as I read. The general feel of the book is so far reaching his poems have timeless depth but you do feel as if he is speaking or mocking (to) you. It is very personal conversation which is timeless. Was he a gay man?> I could not say... his relation to time of war is in my perspective and his relation to nature also follows this GNW mans perspective. Walts understanding of industry may change with results to present as he still lives in this book forever. His relation to religion is also of question to me but though he might have spawned new insights I still think Mr. Whitman was a little too proud for me. The whole theme is one for a thesis and I need help there but I will cherish this book forever.
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hey bret is the leaves of grass the groups book read? i actually have not read this book yet....surprisingly...i don't know how i have not read it for so long! do you like the poems? do any of them speak to you personally?

It would be nice to read together, but my bad I have not e-mailed any of my friends on good-reads. We are not reading a book and missed Slims offer on Aladden but the format is there.
The poems are personel and gave me faith through this dark year,kinda like the bell jar did :)Walt makes you feel like he is next to you and the poems give great insight to then and now in our time of crisis. Satin or Saint he moistens all the roots as each (religous or not) exist in us. The book stalls and then finishes fast and I am not ready to finish it yet~

interesting! it sounds like his poems speak personally in a different way to each person. i started to read the leaves of grass and i see the darkness in the poems as well as the insight into humanity. they seem honest, like the foundations of human emotion. i like it so far and i see what you mean about stalling and not being ready to finish.

i am just going to go out on a limb and consider this group a dead group! i wish there had been more to talk about! bye!