‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’ is one of the most famous poems by the American poet, Walt Whitman (1819-92). Across 206 lines of innovative free verse, Whitman offers an elegy for Abraham Lincoln, who had been assassinated shortly before Whitman wrote the poem. You can read ‘When Lilacs […] The post A Short…
A Short Analysis of Walt Whitman’s ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’ — Interesting Literature
May 14, 2020 by ctsuddeth
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