Talk:The Sleepers (poem)

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Did you know... that Walt Whitman's poem "The Sleepers" contains "one of the most powerful and evocative passages about slavery in American literature"?

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 12:30, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Walt Whitman's poem "The Sleepers" contains "one of the most powerful and evocative passages about slavery in American literature"?
- ALT1:... that Walt Whitman's 1855 poem "The Sleepers" initially contained his most direct condemnation of slavery, but he removed it in later publications?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carl Craig (politician), State Auditor of Mississippi, Carl C. White
Comment: QPQ is 3/3

Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:50, 12 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Accepting offline sources in good faith (not used in hook). GeneralPoxter (talk) 16:28, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Versioning

Since the poem has so many versions (as explained in the article), maybe preface all quotes with the edition they're taken from? The quotes mentioning the whale don't appear to be in any version of the poem I can find online, e. g. Gutenberg, poetry.com, poemhunter.com. IAmNitpicking (talk) 19:17, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

IAmNitpicking, I'd consider an early version of the metaphor in Whitman's notebook to be pretty clear attribution of where that quote comes from (it's from his notebook, not the finished version of the poem) Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:12, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]