 | Richard Chase - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 50 pages
...swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the... | |
 | Robert Nichols - Fiction - 1979 - 132 pages
...ascend from the night Wrenched and sweaty The spotted hawk swoops by — I am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I SOUND MY BARBARIC YAWP OVER THE ROOFS OF THE WORLD." There was by this time a swell of prolonged applause and handclapping from the handful of camp followers... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Poetry - 1961 - 196 pages
...by and accuses me .... he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed .... I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too E PEELE (1559-1596) The Arraignment of Paris 1 My love is fair, my love (Fr. LII, 1. 1331-1333) To a Locomotive in Winter 99 Thee for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Poetry - 1993 - 150 pages
...swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 392 pages
...contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes. Verily we for once agree with him when he says: I am untranslatable: I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. One of the most curious whims of Mr. Walt Whitman is to give his readers from time to time inventories... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the... | |
 | Lawrence W. Levine - Education - 1997 - 236 pages
...fellow Americans when he sang of his cultural distinctiveness: I too am not a bit tamed. . . , I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.10 The literary scholar Werner Sollors, after surveying what he terms American "ethnic literature"... | |
 | Milton Hindus - Poetry, Modern - 1997 - 308 pages
...called 'Walt Whitman' is now the 'Song of Myself.' It still maintains: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. It still has the portrait of Whitman when younger, standing in a loose flannel shirt and slouched hat,... | |
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The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. 
