“<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=26580" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ode to Walt Whitman</a>” by Federico García Lorca, translated by Ben Belitt (1955) This is another English translation of Lorca’s poem, published in the Poetry Foundation’s magazine, Poetry. When analyzing works of poetry in translation, it is often helpful to refer to the work of multiple translators. Lorca’s imagery can be difficult to parse, and if the reader is not fluent in Spanish, multiple translations can help shed light on the meanings of images. If the reader is fluent in Spanish, Lorca’s poem in its original language can be found on the <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Lorca-Garcia_oda-a-walt-whitman.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Pennsylvania website</a>. “<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45470/crossing-brooklyn-ferry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Crossing Brooklyn Ferry</a>” by Walt Whitman The Poetry Foundation offers a number of poems by Walt Whitman that can help a reader of Lorca’s ode understand its subject. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” includes motifs that Lorca utilizes when discussing Whitman, such as the river, clouds, and various animals. The Poetry Foundation’s overall collection of Whitman’s works, as well biographical information about the poet, can be accessed <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/walt-whitman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>. “<a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.00473_00686" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In Clouds Descending, in Midnight Sleep</a>” by Walt Whitman This is another Whitman poem from the Walt Whitman Archive. It includes death, as well as clouds and dreaming, which also appear in Lorca’s ode.

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