by Whitman · Cluster: Comradeship · Union · Hands Hand in Hand
Abstract
Bar-room vignette of two men content to sit hand in hand amid noise; comradeship, the city, the common man and silent intimacy.
Connections
Motifs: Silence, Hands Hand in Hand Themes & Concepts: Comradeship, Romantic Love, Common Man
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CALAMUS
A glimpse through an interstice caught, Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner, Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand, A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest, There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.