From Major to Minor: A Reading of "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life."

R. W French

doi:10.13008/2153-3695.1241

Essays

From Major to Minor: A Reading of "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life."

Abstract

Reads "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" as Whitman's turn from the "major" themes of poems like "Song of Myself" to a "devotion to the ordinary, the plain, the un-beautiful."

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How to Cite: French, R. W. (1989) “From Major to Minor: A Reading of "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life."”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 7(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1241