What makes Walt Whitman’s “To a Stranger” so compelling?

To understand the emotion behind this poem, we must first understand the time in which it was written and the fascinating man behind the pen.

Tiff Reagan
Sep 7, 2018 · 5 min read
Scan from A Life of Walt Whitman by Henry Bryan Binns. Published by Methuen & Co., 1905.

Poetry, like all art, is subject to interpretation. What may be a masterpiece to you, could be unintelligible to another person. As…

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Tiff Reagan

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Writer, wanderer, lover of words. Tiff is a storyteller, a poet and a public servant. She loves summer in Oregon, her dog Roosevelt and the smell of old books.

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