Sections 4-6 “By Blue Ontario’s Shore” by Walt Whitman

11/04/2025 11 min

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Part two of my reading of “By Blue Ontario’s Shore” by Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass editor Karen Karbiener notes about the sequence “By Blue Ontario’s Shore”: “From its first appearance in 1856, this poem has functioned as Whitman’s definitive social statement. In 1856 it constituted a broad directive for how the country might be […]