Why does lit hate on Walt Whitman so much? Every I see him referenced

>>8979578
No one says that lel.

>>8979578
Point to one instance where someone has said Walt Whitman sucks.

You have the archive at your disposal, I expect results.

>>8979578

>I cum all over America,
>and over the mountains, and the lakes and towns,
>and over all the men, women and children (white or black, I accept all),
>but it is not me who cums, but my soul.

HOLY SHIT SO BEAUTIFUL

>>8979775
He actually does have the most beautiful masturbation ever.


Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!
Did it make you ache so, leaving me?

Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,
Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.

Sprouts take and accumulate, stand by the curb prolific and vital,
Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden.

>>8979786
Wtf I'm gay now

>>8979578
>caring this much for the circle jerk of the board

What about actual read the fucking books and and make an opinion yourself? really that hard?

>>8979660
I've personally said it. Many times.

>My own manhattan
>Where I jizz on the sleepers
>I am your jizz and you are mine
>I jizz on the grass
>Which is the back hair of the >man who jizzes on my back
>Who is swimming while i
>watch from the bushes
>While you molest each other

>Let us all be one together and love one another and be lovers of one another

Horrible.

>>8980627
muh reductionism