{"id":6,"date":"2017-04-21T21:27:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/?p=6"},"modified":"2019-02-01T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:11:50","slug":"whitman-and-the-american-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/2017\/04\/21\/whitman-and-the-american-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITMAN, SO EXPLICIT, SO EROTIC POET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"55\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/2017\/04\/21\/whitman-and-the-american-economy\/lola-walt-whitman-t-shirt\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/files\/2017\/04\/LOLA-Walt-Whitman-T-Shirt.jpg?fit=456%2C496&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"456,496\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LOLA-Walt-Whitman-T-Shirt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/files\/2017\/04\/LOLA-Walt-Whitman-T-Shirt.jpg?fit=456%2C496&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-55 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/files\/2017\/04\/LOLA-Walt-Whitman-T-Shirt-276x300.jpg?resize=324%2C352\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/files\/2017\/04\/LOLA-Walt-Whitman-T-Shirt.jpg?resize=276%2C300&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/files\/2017\/04\/LOLA-Walt-Whitman-T-Shirt.jpg?w=456&amp;ssl=1 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Mi first lesson at Harvard: Whitman is the poet of a rich country. He claims to be as infinite as a leaf of grass. Since his first verse, he goes far away. No doubt: he is the voice of The United States of America. His \u2018big scale\u2019 poetry voice has been leading\u00a0the american culture in some way or another. Some day, the best economists of this world must treat this awesome stuff. It is not worthless. In fact, it is a poetrical tone turning into an economical factor, involving the use of a strong, green metaphor called\u00a0\u2018dolar\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">On the other hand, the rest of this continent is poor. Our poets think poorly. They\u00a0claim to be the\u00a0shadow of a ghost in hunger strike. Perhaps they ignore that Whitman is still an erotic, explicit, capitalist poet in a capitalist world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Theme for an essay: \u00a1The impact of Whitman poems on the american economy!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mi first lesson at Harvard: Whitman is the poet of a rich country. He claims to be as infinite as a leaf of grass. Since his first verse, he goes far away. No doubt: he is the voice of The United States of America. His \u2018big scale\u2019 poetry voice has been leading\u00a0the american culture in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9uf7r-6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myharvardstuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}