{"id":713,"date":"2009-09-25T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2014-12-14T22:33:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T03:33:55","slug":"body-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/body-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Electric: Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_714\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-714\" title=\"Walt Whitman_1215\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Walt-Whitman_1215.jpg?resize=487%2C600\" alt=\"Walt Whitman, 1854, photo attributed to Gabriel Harrison\" width=\"487\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Walt-Whitman_1215.jpg?w=487 487w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Walt-Whitman_1215.jpg?resize=243%2C300 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walt Whitman, 1854, photo attributed to Gabriel Harrison<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Walt Whitman was born into the working class, and had to toil and struggle throughout his life.\u00a0 During the dark and bloody years of the American Civil War he served as a nurse to wounded soldiers.\u00a0 His poetry and his political activities got him fired from jobs on several occasions.\u00a0 In spite of it all, the primary tone of his poetic voice is ecstatic.\u00a0 His vision was so clear that he persisted throughout his life expanding and revising what he saw as his single work, his great epic of embodied spirit, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/whitmanarchive.org\/published\/LG\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leaves of Grass<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For Walt, all people and all things are equal because all are expressions of the divine, and the direct experience of the divine is the experience of embracing the wild and messy physical world.\u00a0 His &#8220;Song of Myself&#8221; is not far from the Buddhist idea of &#8220;no self&#8221;, because by &#8220;myself&#8221; he means the experience of his senses, which is a universe complete, its grandeur expressed in its commonest parts:<\/p>\n<p><em>A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;<br \/>\nHow could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more<br \/>\nthan he. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green<br \/>\nstuff woven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,<br \/>\nA scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,<br \/>\nBearing the owner&#8217;s name someway in the corners, that we may see<br \/>\nand remark, and say Whose?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the<br \/>\nvegetation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,<br \/>\nAnd it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,<br \/>\nGrowing among black folks as among white,<br \/>\nKanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I<br \/>\nreceive them the same.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(From &#8220;Song of Myself&#8221;)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is the last section of &#8220;I Sing the Body Electric&#8221;, a fragment of\u00a0 <em>Leaves of Grass<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Whitman&#8217;s sampler of body parts and vital functions ecstatically regarded.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve interspersed a few of my sketches, not as illustrations of these words, but as love-offerings to Walt.\u00a0 If they distract you from the endless skipping-stone of the poet&#8217;s cadence, or if you want to savor the full poem, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcatpoems.com\/w\/i_sing_the_body_electric.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and<br \/>\nwomen, nor the likes of the parts of you,<br \/>\nI believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of<br \/>\nthe soul, (and that they are the soul,)<br \/>\nI believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and<br \/>\nthat they are my poems,<br \/>\nMan&#8217;s, woman&#8217;s, child, youth&#8217;s, wife&#8217;s, husband&#8217;s, mother&#8217;s,<br \/>\nfather&#8217;s, young man&#8217;s, young woman&#8217;s poems,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_717\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><em><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-717\" class=\"size-full wp-image-717\" title=\"fredhatt-2009-poleman\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2009-poleman.jpg?resize=429%2C600\" alt=\"Poleman, 2009, by Fred Hatt\" width=\"429\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2009-poleman.jpg?w=429 429w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2009-poleman.jpg?resize=214%2C300 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/em><\/em><p id=\"caption-attachment-717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poleman, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,<br \/>\nEyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or<br \/>\nsleeping of the lids,<br \/>\nMouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,<br \/>\nNose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,<br \/>\nCheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,<br \/>\nStrong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the<br \/>\nample side-round of the chest,<br \/>\nUpper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,<br \/>\nWrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger,<br \/>\nfinger-joints, finger-nails,<br \/>\nBroad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side,<br \/>\nRibs, belly, backbone, joints of the backbone,<br \/>\nHips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round,<br \/>\nman-balls, man-root,<br \/>\nStrong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,<br \/>\nLeg-fibres, knee, knee-pan, upper-leg, under-leg,<br \/>\nAnkles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_716\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><em><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"size-full wp-image-716\" title=\"fredhatt-2009-push\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2009-push.jpg?resize=427%2C600\" alt=\"Push, 2009, by Fred Hatt\" width=\"427\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2009-push.jpg?w=427 427w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2009-push.jpg?resize=213%2C300 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/em><\/em><p id=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Push, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your<br \/>\nbody or of any one&#8217;s body, male or female,<br \/>\nThe lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean,<br \/>\nThe brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,<br \/>\nSympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity,<br \/>\nWomanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,<br \/>\nThe womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping,<br \/>\nlove-looks, love-perturbations and risings,<br \/>\nThe voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,<br \/>\nFood, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,<br \/>\nPoise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,<br \/>\nThe continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,<br \/>\nThe skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,<br \/>\nThe curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked<br \/>\nmeat of the body,<br \/>\nThe circling rivers the breath, and breathing it in and out,<br \/>\nThe beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward<br \/>\ntoward the knees,<br \/>\nThe thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the<br \/>\nmarrow in the bones,<br \/>\nThe exquisite realization of health;<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_718\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><em><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-718\" class=\"size-full wp-image-718\" title=\"fredhatt-2009-look-ahead\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2009-look-ahead.jpg?resize=431%2C600\" alt=\"Look Ahead, 2009, by Fred Hatt\" width=\"431\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2009-look-ahead.jpg?w=431 431w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2009-look-ahead.jpg?resize=215%2C300 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/em><\/em><p id=\"caption-attachment-718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look Ahead, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,<br \/>\nO I say now these are the soul!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walt Whitman&#8217;s full-bodied embrace of life, of Nature, of humanity, has become rare in the arts of our era.\u00a0 Our culture fears this raw openness, and chooses to sheild it behind layers of cynicism or sentimentality.\u00a0 But Walt&#8217;s light still shines.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll close with a set of artist&#8217;s reference photographs taken by the great American painter and teacher Thomas Eakins.\u00a0 Scholars believe the model for these pictures may be Walt Whitman.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_715\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-715\" class=\"size-full wp-image-715\" title=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/115.jpg?resize=790%2C336\" alt=\"Old man, seven photographs, c. 1885, photo by Thomas Eakins\" width=\"790\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/115.jpg?w=790 790w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/115.jpg?resize=300%2C127 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old man, seven photographs, c. 1885, photo by Thomas Eakins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The drawings in this post are 70 cm x 50 cm, aquarelle crayon on paper.\u00a0 Photographs are from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitmanarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walt Whitman Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walt Whitman was born into the working class, and had to toil and struggle throughout his life.\u00a0 During the dark and bloody years of the American Civil War he served as a nurse to wounded soldiers.\u00a0 His poetry and his political activities got him fired from jobs on several occasions.\u00a0 In spite of it all, 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