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Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and other poems is a collection of eighteen poems written and published by American poet Walt Whitman in 1865. Most of the poems in the collection reflect on the American Civil War (1861–1865), including the elegies "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain!
Source: Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps (New York; Washington, D.C., 1865–1866). University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives , PS3211.A1 1865 . Transcribed from digital images of original copy.
O capitano! Mio capitano! fu pubblicata per la prima volta nel giornale The Saturday Press il 4 novembre del 1865 e successivamente nella collezione di poesie Sequel to Drum-Taps. Fu poi compresa nel volume Foglie d'erba a partire dalla quarta edizione del 1867.
The Sequel gathered together eighteen poems in a twenty-four-page booklet, which was bound into some of the copies of Drum-Taps and included some of Whitman's most recognizable poetry: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "O Captain!
- History
- Contents and Themes
- Poems
- References
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Creating the publication
On April 12, 1861, Confederate cannons fired upon Fort Sumtersignaling the opening of the American Civil War. Consequently, this would also mark the beginning of a very important time in the life of American poet Walt Whitman. Whitman's style of writing drew from his attempts to better manage the psychological chaos he experienced. As the nation began to dramatically shift, so did Whitman. His poetry during this time would begin to demonstrate his vision of democracy as people acting collecti...
Publishing process
How to go about getting this work published would prove to be a tedious affair. By June 23, 1864, Whitman was on the verge of a mental breakdown and grew to be so terribly ill from all the work he had been doing in the hospitals that he was forced to retire to his home in Brooklyn.: 183 He managed to declare himself "gradually alleviated, until now I go about pretty much the same as usual" on July 24 and dedicated himself to, at last, publishing his collection of poems. "I intend to move heav...
Patriotism and the purpose of war
Whitman's writings in Drum-Taps appear to be separated into different loosely congregated sections without plainly saying this. Within the first group of poems, Whitman expresses both exuberance and doubts in regard to the imminent conflict. Both Lincoln and Whitman had a like-minded philosophy that the sole objective of the war was to preserve the "more perfect union." Lincoln often expressed this belief and stated that the issue of slavery should be and only would be addressed if it contrib...
Imagery
The next group of poems is unique in Whitman's work. These poems present a mode of seeing unarguably associated with the discovery and development of photography. Poems such as "Cavalry Crossing a Ford", "Bivouac on a Mountain Side", "An Army Corps on the March", and "By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" all vividly describe an army that is on the move during a hard day's march, at rest as the daytime fades away, the sensation of marching into combat, and the sleepless night of a soldier sitting at...
Suffering in the Civil War
Drum-Taps also explores the great suffering, death, and injury that occurred during the Civil War. Poems range from the unequivocal suffering experienced by a mother who learns of the wounding and consequential death of her son in "Come Up from the Fields Father" to the camaraderie of "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" which tells the story of a soldier who watches one of his fellow soldiers die at his side before continuing on in the battle he is engaged in. During the night he la...
The collection originally consisted of 53 poems: 1. "Drum-Taps" 2. "Shut not your doors to me proud Libraries" 3. "Cavalry crossing a ford" 4. "Song of the Banner at Day-Break" 5. "By the bivouac's fitful flame" 6. "1861" 7. "From Paumanok starting I fly like a bird" 8. "Beginning my studies" 9. "The Centenarian's Story" 10. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"...
Sources
1. Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. New York: Random House. 1.1. 1958. Fort Sumter to Perryville. 1.2. 1963. Fredericksburg to Meridian. 2. Gutman, Huck. 2011. "'Drum-Taps' (1865)." The Walt Whitman Archive, edited by J. R. LeMaster and D. D. Kummings. 3. Ignoffo, Matthew F. 1975. What the War Did to Whitman: A Brief Study of the Effects of the Civil War on the Mind of Walt Whitman. New York: Vantage. 4. Lehrer, Jonah. 2008. Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 5....
Drum-Taps public domain audiobook at LibriVoxThe 24-page collection was titled Sequel to Drum-Taps and bore the subtitle When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd and other poems. The eponymous poem filled the first nine pages. In October, after the pamphlet was printed, he returned to Brooklyn to have them integrated with Drum-Taps.
Sequel to Drum-Taps. Below are all known versions of this work, organized by the section in which they appear on the Archive. Items. Comments? Published Writings. Literary Manuscripts. Whitman's Life. Letters. Disciples. Commentary. Pictures, Sound, and Video.
