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* ''Film/BullDurham'': Annie likes to read poetry to the ballplayers before she sleeps with them ("Guy will listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay"), and reads Whitman to Nuke. When he asks who Whitman is, she replies, "He sort of pitches for the Cosmic All-Stars."
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* ''Film/BullDurham'': Annie likes to read poetry {{poetry}} to the ballplayers before she sleeps with them ("Guy will listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay"), and reads Whitman to Nuke. When he asks who Whitman is, she replies, "He sort of pitches for the Cosmic All-Stars."
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The title of the episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E100ISingTheBodyElectric "I Sing the Body Electric"]] comes from a Walt Whitman poem, which questions: "What, exactly, constitutes a person?"
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The title of the episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E100ISingTheBodyElectric [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E35ISingTheBodyElectric "I Sing the Body Electric"]] comes from a Walt Whitman poem, which questions: "What, exactly, constitutes a person?"
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* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': Of all people, The Joker is the one that cites Withman in one of his intros vs Captain Cold.
-->'''Joker''': Oh Captain, my Captain!\\
'''Captain Cold''': Whitman? Seriously?\\
'''Joker''': A little culture wouldn't kill you.
-->'''Joker''': Oh Captain, my Captain!\\
'''Captain Cold''': Whitman? Seriously?\\
'''Joker''': A little culture wouldn't kill you.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E8MotherSimpson "Mother Simpson"]] Homer discovers that the grave he'd thought belonged to his mother is actually that of Walt Whitman.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E8MotherSimpson "Mother Simpson"]] Homer discovers that the grave he'd thought belonged to his mother is actually that of Walt Whitman. [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield In real life, Whitman was buried in Camden, New Jersey, which suggests that Springfield is in New Jersey]].
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* In ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', Dane Whitman recites part of "Song of the Universal" to students at the Natural History Museum while buying time for Sersi, who's late.
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* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': The works of Creator/WaltWhitman, Creator/HenryDavidThoreau, Robert Herrick, Creator/LordByron, Vachel Lindsay, Creator/AlfredLordTennyson, Abraham Cowley, Raymond Calvert, Creator/RobertFrost, and Creator/WilliamShakespeare are refered to during Keating's class and the meetings of the Dead Poets Society. As a matter of fact Keating misquotes Walt Whitman's 1892 "Song of Myself". The word "rooftops" should have been "roofs".
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* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': The works of Creator/WaltWhitman, Creator/HenryDavidThoreau, Robert Herrick, Creator/LordByron, Vachel Lindsay, Creator/AlfredLordTennyson, Abraham Cowley, Raymond Calvert, Creator/RobertFrost, and Creator/WilliamShakespeare are refered referred to during Keating's class and the meetings of the Dead Poets Society. As a matter of fact Keating misquotes Walt Whitman's 1892 "Song of Myself". The word "rooftops" should have been "roofs". The movie ends with Todd and several of his schoolmates standing on top of their desks saying "O Captain! My Captain!" when Keating leaves. After Creator/RobinWilliams' death in 2014, many people paid tribute to Williams by posting "O Captain! My Captain!" in homage to this film.
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* The 1994 adaptation of "Little Women" has Jo and Friedrich quoting "Give Me the Silent Spreading Sun."
* Film/TheHistoryBoys references him by quoting the poem that names the aforementioned Now Voyager.
* Film/TheHistoryBoys references him by quoting the poem that names the aforementioned Now Voyager.
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* Music/RalphVaughanWilliams ' "Dona Nobis Pacem" sets several poems from Leaves of Grass to music, mostly those about the Civil War.
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-->'''Homer:''' (''kicking'') [[PunctuatedPounding I! HATE! YOU! WALT! FREAKING! WHITMAN!]] ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass'', my ass!
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* ''Film/DeadAgain'':
-->'''Roman:''' To die is different than what anyone supposes, and luckier. \\
'''Gray Baker:''' [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure Is that a line from your opera?]] \\
'''Roman:''' (''[[ActuallyPrettyFunny chuckling]]'') It's Creator/WaltWhitman. I can't take credit for everything, Mr. Baker.
* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': The works of Creator/WaltWhitman, Creator/HenryDavidThoreau, Robert Herrick, Creator/LordByron, Vachel Lindsay, Creator/AlfredLordTennyson, Abraham Cowley, Raymond Calvert, Creator/RobertFrost, and Creator/WilliamShakespeare are refered to during Keating's class and the meetings of the Dead Poets Society. As a matter of fact Keating misquotes Walt Whitman's 1892 "Song of Myself". The word "rooftops" should have been "roofs".
* The title of ''Film/NowVoyager'' is from a Walt Whitman poem, which Dr. Jacquith reads and then gives to Charlotte.
-->'''Roman:''' To die is different than what anyone supposes, and luckier. \\
'''Gray Baker:''' [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure Is that a line from your opera?]] \\
'''Roman:''' (''[[ActuallyPrettyFunny chuckling]]'') It's Creator/WaltWhitman. I can't take credit for everything, Mr. Baker.
* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': The works of Creator/WaltWhitman, Creator/HenryDavidThoreau, Robert Herrick, Creator/LordByron, Vachel Lindsay, Creator/AlfredLordTennyson, Abraham Cowley, Raymond Calvert, Creator/RobertFrost, and Creator/WilliamShakespeare are refered to during Keating's class and the meetings of the Dead Poets Society. As a matter of fact Keating misquotes Walt Whitman's 1892 "Song of Myself". The word "rooftops" should have been "roofs".
* The title of ''Film/NowVoyager'' is from a Walt Whitman poem, which Dr. Jacquith reads and then gives to Charlotte.
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* Walt Whitman gets a ShoutOut in Creator/AllenGinsberg's "A Supermarket in California".
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* Walt Whitman gets a ShoutOut in Creator/AllenGinsberg's "A Supermarket in California".California".
* ''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary'' includes a rather pointed satirical TakeThat at Whitman with the "definition":
-->'''Incompossible''', n. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. [...]
* In ''{{Literature/Changes}}'', book twelve of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Bob quotes Creator/WaltWhitman ("Oh, Captain, my captain.") when Harry orders him to lower the apartment's wards.
* In ''Literature/TheGodsOfManhattan'' a number of historical figures, like Frederick Douglass, Babe Ruth, and even Walt Whitman, are revealed to have been upgraded into gods after their deaths.
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's "Lost Legacy" a benevolent secret society of people with psychic abilities lives under Mount Shasta. Their membership has included UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, Creator/AmbroseBierce, Creator/MarkTwain and Walt Whitman. They help the protagonists refine their mental abilities and fight the opposition group that wants to keep humanity ignorant.
* ''Literature/PaperTowns'': One of the clues Margo seems to have left for Q are parts of the poem "Song of Myself" by Creator/WaltWhitman.
* ''Literature/TakeMeLikeASailor'': ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass'' by Creator/WaltWhitman is one of two books Evelyn keeps in his sea-chest, the other being ''Moby-Dick''.
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* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** In [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E6Sunset "Sunset"]] Walt and Gale bond over their shared love of chemistry and their fascination with the written works of Walt Whitman.
** In [[Recap/BreakingBadS4E4BulletPoints "Bullet Points"]] Walt convinces Hank that the "W. W." in Gale's notes refer to Walt Whitman, to cement Hank's suspicion that Gale was Heisenberg.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Not only does the Doctor directly reference the Creator/WaltWhitman poem "O Captain! My Captain!" in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]", there are quite a few repetitions of "O Clara! My Clara" throughout her run, including the minisode that debuted before "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor The Name of the Doctor]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Dark Water]]".
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The title of the episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E100ISingTheBodyElectric "I Sing the Body Electric"]] comes from a Walt Whitman poem, which questions: "What, exactly, constitutes a person?"
-->O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,\\
O I say now these are the soul!
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* Music/LanaDelRey cites Whitman as one of the creators who came before her that inspire and inform her music.
* Music/SilverJews did a musical rendition of Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!".
* Music/TitusAndronicus: Music/TheMonitor contains readings of speeches and writings by Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman, among others, performed by fellow indie rock artists such as Craig Finn of The Hold Steady and Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak.
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* {{Theatre/Hamilton}}: The line "America sings for you" in the song "Hamilton" seems a nod to "I Hear America Singing", one of the poems from Creator/WaltWhitman's ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass''.
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* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': The Hellion's Barbaric YAWP! skill references a poem by Walt Whitman.
* ''{{VideoGame/Trinity}}'' includes a bunch of literary references, includes ones to ''Through the Looking Glass'', ''Moby-Dick'', Creator/EmilyDickinson, Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, and ''Peter Pan''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Marks for Effort" the pledge that Spike has the students recite is based on the "[[Creator/WaltWhitman Oh Captain, My Captain]]" pledge from ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E8MotherSimpson "Mother Simpson"]] Homer discovers that the grave he'd thought belonged to his mother is actually that of Walt Whitman.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Pearl's re-write of the play in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E17HistoricalFriction "Historical Friction"]] contains the lines "[[Creator/WaltWhitman O Captain, my captain!]]" and "[[Creator/WilliamShakespeare What light through yonder stage left breaks?/It is the east, and we are the Crystal Gems!]]"
* ''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary'' includes a rather pointed satirical TakeThat at Whitman with the "definition":
-->'''Incompossible''', n. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. [...]
* In ''{{Literature/Changes}}'', book twelve of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Bob quotes Creator/WaltWhitman ("Oh, Captain, my captain.") when Harry orders him to lower the apartment's wards.
* In ''Literature/TheGodsOfManhattan'' a number of historical figures, like Frederick Douglass, Babe Ruth, and even Walt Whitman, are revealed to have been upgraded into gods after their deaths.
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's "Lost Legacy" a benevolent secret society of people with psychic abilities lives under Mount Shasta. Their membership has included UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, Creator/AmbroseBierce, Creator/MarkTwain and Walt Whitman. They help the protagonists refine their mental abilities and fight the opposition group that wants to keep humanity ignorant.
* ''Literature/PaperTowns'': One of the clues Margo seems to have left for Q are parts of the poem "Song of Myself" by Creator/WaltWhitman.
* ''Literature/TakeMeLikeASailor'': ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass'' by Creator/WaltWhitman is one of two books Evelyn keeps in his sea-chest, the other being ''Moby-Dick''.
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* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** In [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E6Sunset "Sunset"]] Walt and Gale bond over their shared love of chemistry and their fascination with the written works of Walt Whitman.
** In [[Recap/BreakingBadS4E4BulletPoints "Bullet Points"]] Walt convinces Hank that the "W. W." in Gale's notes refer to Walt Whitman, to cement Hank's suspicion that Gale was Heisenberg.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Not only does the Doctor directly reference the Creator/WaltWhitman poem "O Captain! My Captain!" in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]", there are quite a few repetitions of "O Clara! My Clara" throughout her run, including the minisode that debuted before "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor The Name of the Doctor]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Dark Water]]".
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The title of the episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E100ISingTheBodyElectric "I Sing the Body Electric"]] comes from a Walt Whitman poem, which questions: "What, exactly, constitutes a person?"
-->O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,\\
O I say now these are the soul!
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* Music/LanaDelRey cites Whitman as one of the creators who came before her that inspire and inform her music.
* Music/SilverJews did a musical rendition of Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!".
* Music/TitusAndronicus: Music/TheMonitor contains readings of speeches and writings by Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman, among others, performed by fellow indie rock artists such as Craig Finn of The Hold Steady and Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak.
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* {{Theatre/Hamilton}}: The line "America sings for you" in the song "Hamilton" seems a nod to "I Hear America Singing", one of the poems from Creator/WaltWhitman's ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass''.
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* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': The Hellion's Barbaric YAWP! skill references a poem by Walt Whitman.
* ''{{VideoGame/Trinity}}'' includes a bunch of literary references, includes ones to ''Through the Looking Glass'', ''Moby-Dick'', Creator/EmilyDickinson, Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, and ''Peter Pan''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Marks for Effort" the pledge that Spike has the students recite is based on the "[[Creator/WaltWhitman Oh Captain, My Captain]]" pledge from ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E8MotherSimpson "Mother Simpson"]] Homer discovers that the grave he'd thought belonged to his mother is actually that of Walt Whitman.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Pearl's re-write of the play in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E17HistoricalFriction "Historical Friction"]] contains the lines "[[Creator/WaltWhitman O Captain, my captain!]]" and "[[Creator/WilliamShakespeare What light through yonder stage left breaks?/It is the east, and we are the Crystal Gems!]]"
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* ''Film/BullDurham'': Annie likes to read poetry to the ballplayers before she sleeps with them ("Guy will listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay"), and reads Whitman to Nuke. When he asks who Whitman is, she replies, "He sort of pitches for the Cosmic All-Stars."
* ''Film/BullDurham'': Annie likes to read poetry to the ballplayers before she sleeps with them ("Guy will listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay"), and reads Whitman to Nuke. When he asks who Whitman is, she replies, "He sort of pitches for the Cosmic All-Stars."
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* Walt Whitman gets a ShoutOut in Creator/AllenGinsberg's "A Supermarket in California".
* Walt Whitman gets a ShoutOut in Creator/AllenGinsberg's "A Supermarket in California".
