Walt Whitman "Pioneers! O Pioneers" Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading his celebrated poem "Pioneers! O Pioneers" A poem celebrating the great American urge to settle and farm the western prairies that surged in the years immediately following the Civil War. It was during these years that Walt Whitman was writing poems such as "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" dedicated to America's "youthful, sinewy races," "Western youths" drawn to the wide prairies. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a great traveller around the continent and a truly American poet. He was proud of the new nation, its races and its lands, its scenes and cities, its territorial and economic growth and believed in the mission America had in the world. Walt Whitman (1819-1892 was born in Long Island, New York, the son of a Quaker carpenter. Whitman's mother was descended from Dutch farmers. In Whitman's childhood there were slaves employed on the farm. Whitman was early on filled with a love of nature. He read classics in his youth and was inspired by writers such as Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle and Emerson he is best remembered for his long rambling collections of verse "Leaves of grass Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserrved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2009 " published in his Leaves of Grass compilation in 1891. Walt Whitman (1819-1892 was born in Long Island, New York, the son of a Quaker carpenter. Whitman's mother was descended from Dutch farmers. In Whitman's childhood there were slaves employed on the farm. Whitman was early on filled with a love of nature. He read classics in his youth and was inspired by writers such as Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle and Emerson he is best remembered for his long rambling collections of verse "Leaves of grass Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2009 Pioneers! O Pioneers! All the past we leave behind, We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O pioneers! We detachment steady throwing, Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountain steep, Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways, Pioneers! O pioneers! Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass,1855 Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a great traveller around the continent