On Time and Form in Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

Paul A Orlov

doi:10.13008/2153-3695.1057

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On Time and Form in Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

Abstract

Offers a reading of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" that emphasizes that, "although critics have sometimes claimed that Whitman's verse generally suffers from a looseness of form, it is precisely through a strategic and careful poetic form that he achieves in this poem a crossing that involves poet and reader alike in a timeless voyage of being."

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How to Cite: Orlov, P. A. (1984) “On Time and Form in Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 2(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1057