by Johannes Binotto
This is a podcast of the BA seminar "Gardens and Machines. American Nature from Transcendentalism to Industrialization" from fall semester 2021 at the English Department of the University of Zurich. The first season of the podcast is devoted to Walt Whitman, whose poems we stage in a natural auditory environment.
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October 27, 2021
<p>Wonderful how I celebrate you and myself<br> How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around!<br> How the clouds pass silently overhead!<br> How the earth darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on! How the water sports and sings! (surely it is alive!)<br> How the trees rise and stand up, with strong trunks, with branches and leaves! </p> <p>(Surely there is something more in each of the trees, some living soul.)</p> <p>O amazement of things—even the least particle!<br> O spirituality of things!<br> O strain musical flowing through ages and continents, now reaching me and America! I take your strong chords, intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.</p> <p>I too carol the sun, usher’d or at noon, or as now, setting,<br> I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth and of all the growths of the earth, I too have felt the resistless call of myself.</p> <p>As I steam’d down the Mississippi,<br> As I wander’d over the prairies,<br> As I have lived, as I have look’d through my windows my eyes,</p> <p>As I went forth in the morning, as I beheld the light breaking in the east,<br> As I bathed on the beach of the Eastern Sea, and again on the beach of the Western Sea,<br> As I roam’d the streets of inland Chicago, whatever streets I have roam’d, Or cities or silent woods, or even amid the sights of war,<br> Wherever I have been I have charged myself with contentment and triumph.</p> <p>I sing to the last the equalities modern or old, I sing the endless finales of things,<br> I say Nature continues, glory continues,<br> I praise with electric voice,</p> <p>For I do not see one imperfection in the universe,<br> And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.</p> <p>O setting sun! though the time has come,<br> I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.</p>
October 27, 2021
<p>Why, who makes much of a miracle?<br> As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,<br> Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,<br> Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,<br> Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,<br> Or stand under trees in the woods,<br> Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,<br> Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,<br> Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,<br> Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,<br> Or animals feeding in the fields,<br> Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,<br> Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,<br> Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles, The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.</p> <p>To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,<br> Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,<br> Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.<br> To me the sea is a continual miracle,<br> The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them,<br> What stranger miracles are there?</p>
October 27, 2021
<p>Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words;</p> <p>Are you full-lung’d and limber-lipp’d from long trial? from vigorous practice? from physique?</p> <p>Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?</p> <p>Come duly to the divine power to speak words?</p> <p>For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,</p> <p>After treading ground and breasting river and lake,</p> <p>After a loosen’d throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes, </p> <p>After complete faith, after clarifyings, elevations, and removing obstructions,</p> <p>After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, woman, the divine power to speak words; </p> <p>Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—none refuse, all attend,</p> <p>Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,</p> <p>They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man or that woman.</p>
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This is a podcast of the BA seminar "Gardens and Machines. American Nature from Transcendentalism to Industrialization" from fall semester 2021 at the English Department of the University of Zurich.
The first season of the podcast is devoted to Walt Whitman, whose poems we stage in a natural auditory environment.
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