by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
The phallic, immortal chanter of Adamic songs returning through ages, bathing his songs in sex; eternal return, the body, lust, immortality.
Connections
Topoi: Eternal Return Themes & Concepts: Sexuality, Body, Immortality Forms & Genres: Free Verse Historical References: Bible
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CHILDREN OF ADAM
Ages and ages returning at intervals,
Undestroy’d, wandering immortal,
Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,
I, chanter of Adamic songs,
Through the new garden the West, the great cities calling,
Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself,
Bathing myself, bathing my songs in Sex,
Offspring of my loins.