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Walt Whitman

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

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I'm Reading the Poem Want to Read to You

This is a poem called two o by walt whitman. He does write free verse, but it has a fa s biblical feel to e. It's sort of less poetic than oratorical - he sounds like the best preacher you've ever heard in your life. O, so an incredibly direct address to the reader. The title, whoever you are, no k that at first i'm i'm flattered by the toyou. And then he sor to takes it away from me. Whoever you are, suddenly i've become one of the masses. I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands. Here comes the list, even now your features, joy

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