Review: Ahead of His Time
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
Walt Whitman was way ahead of his time. His poems (and the stories behind them) are a fascinating human story, a timeless tale of human passion. While the claims of his sexual orientation are debated, it is my belief that Walt Whitman was an early pioneer of the modern freedom of sexual expression.The poems in this collection are very gritty, but in a good way. They are a window into the author's soul, of what life was like in the 1800s. Walt was not a shy man; while his works here are relatively tame by today's standards (in the days of the internet), they must have been downright scandalous in the 1800s. I enjoyed reading them, not only for their historical value, but as a brief glimpse into a topic that was not discussed much in that time period in the Americas.