by Whitman · Cluster: Melancholy · Suffering · Pain and Suffering
Abstract
A short free-verse lyric fearing that the aches and ennui of old age filter into his songs; themes of old age, writing and melancholy.
Connections
Motifs: Letters and Writing Themes & Concepts: Melancholy, Mortality, Memory and Time Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: SANDS AT SEVENTY
As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
May filter in my dally songs.