Apple's new iPad Air commercial features arresting images, intense narration (a la William Burroughs), and part of an amazing Walt Whitman poem. Aside from making me itch for a new iPad, the commercial reminded me of that finger-in-the-socket feeling of reading Whitman's poetry. Nobody has ever been more alive than Walt Whitman!
But the ad only uses the first and last few lines of his ecstatic poem. To read the whole thing, check out O Me! O Life!
Then if someone asks "What's the point of living?" you can quote Walt Whitman: "That you are here--that life exists and identity / That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."
But the ad only uses the first and last few lines of his ecstatic poem. To read the whole thing, check out O Me! O Life!
Then if someone asks "What's the point of living?" you can quote Walt Whitman: "That you are here--that life exists and identity / That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."
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