When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Resources

Peruse all the different ways you can use "I" in a poem.

Here's all you could ever want to know about Whitman's life and work.

Feast your eyes on all things Whitman.

Check out this video of the speaker's "song."

Check out the way Whitman might have looked reading, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Eerie.

Um… A for effort?

Here's a nice and simple reading of our poem with our man animated again. Why are people doing this?

Got 42 minutes? Then we have an audio version for you.

Dig the beard—very hipster.

Here's our man, lost in thought.

Behold, the grandfather of American poetry.

The lilacs look mighty pretty and hopeful.

Slate Magazine talks all about how our man managed to make America so vast and yet so familiar to us.

Lots of new material has popped up about our man and his lectures on Lincoln, among other things.

Here's everything you'd ever want to know about Walt during some of America's toughest times.

Apparently Ezra Pound thought Walt Whitman "is America."