WWQR > Vol. 1 (1983) > No. 4
Abstract
Offers a reading of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" that demonstrates how Whitman uses the poem to sublimate the violence of Lincoln's assassination, so that "what on the purely historical level is a man's unnatural death at the hands of another man--a violent 'crime'--becomes on more symbolic levels a natural, necessary creative event."
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Copyright © 1984 by The University of Iowa.
Recommended Citation
Yongue, Patricia Lee. "Violence in Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 12-20.
Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol1/iss4/3
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