by Whitman · Cluster: Comradeship · Union · Hands Hand in Hand
Abstract
Promise to travel west to teach ‘robust American love’; comradeship bound to westward expansion, the road, and democratic nationhood.
Connections
Topoi: Open Road Homecoming Motifs: Sea Themes & Concepts: Comradeship, Romantic Love, Nationalism and Patriotism
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CALAMUS
A promise to California, Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon; Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love, For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea; For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.