by Whitman · Cluster: Sun · Light and Dark · Fire
Abstract
An imagistic prairie sunset of pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.
Connections
Motifs: Sun, Nature, Light and Dark Themes & Concepts: Beauty, Sublime Forms & Genres: Lyric Settings: American West
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: SANDS AT SEVENTY
Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,
The earth’s whole amplitude and Nature’s multiform power consign’d
for once to colors;
The light, the general air possess’d by them—colors till now unknown,
No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—
North, South, all,
Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.