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August 6, 2013 08:06 pm PDT

Leaves of Glass: Breaking Bads Walt Whitman fixation, and 'Ozymandias'deconstructed

At Poetry Magazine, TV critic Kera Bolonik answers the questions, "how does Walter White compare to Walt Whitman? And what cynical commentary on our times, on humanity, does series creator Vince Gilligan make with this subversive pairing?" Some snippets from her answers:When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer is, among other things, a declaration of disillusionment with convention, and of liberation, of emerging from the passive seat and propelling oneself into the world to participate and engage with it.



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