An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 18, 2024
- April 17, 2024
- April 16, 2024
- April 15, 2024
- April 14, 2024
- April 13, 2024
- April 12, 2024
August 6, 2013 08:06 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dn49NyYQTMU/story01.htm
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.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dn49NyYQTMU/story01.htm
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article