Episode 1692
This Dust Was Once the Man
Wed, 2021-Dec-22 01:49 UTC
Length - 1:55
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The featured article for Wednesday, 22 December 2021 is This Dust Was Once the Man.
"This Dust Was Once the Man" is an elegy written by Walt Whitman in 1871. The poem is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, whom Whitman greatly admired. The poem was written six years after Lincoln's assassination. Whitman had written three previous poems about Lincoln, all in 1865: "O Captain! My Captain!", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day".
The poem has not attracted much individual attention, though it was generally positively received and has been analyzed several times, generally as an epitaph for Lincoln. The poem describes Lincoln as having saved the union of the United States from "the foulest crime in history", a line that scholars have made conflicting interpretations of. It is generally seen as referring to either the secession of the Confederate States of America or the assassination of Lincoln.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:49 UTC on Wednesday, 22 December 2021.
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